Update

I'm thinking that I will really try to keep this blog up to date. As grateful as I am for family & friends enquiring how things are going, some times telling the same update 10 times becomes tedious. By writing this blog, the people who we want to keep up to date with our progress will have easy access to the latest news.

We did another round of Clomid in February. It didn't work. Further ultrasounds suggested that the cyst on my ovary was more than likely an endometrioma. By March, Dr B was suggesting that we really need to go ahead with the surgery (laparoscopy)  to remove it. Doing this would also give him a chance to see if anything else was wrong. Ultrasounds and blood tests only tell us so much. He also told us that he thought our best chance to conceive would come from IVF. To do an egg retireval with a cyst/endometrioma in the way would risk infection. Therefore, surgery was necessary before moving to IVF.

We approached AHM, my health insurance fund, and were told that due their belief that this is all a pre-existing condition that they would offer no benefit until the 12 months waiting period had passed (Sept 2011). Not wanting to wait that long, we decided to go ahead with the surgery anyway and booked in for May 20. This allowed us to enjoy our already planned vacation to Vietnam in April.

I am really unhappy with AHM's decision, as I do not believe the condition was pre-existing according to their definition.  My GP & specialist both wrote letters to support this, but AHM's 'medically trained' decision maker disagreed. When I pushed AHM as to whether 'medical training' meant that the person was a doctor they refused to answer. I pointed out that I considered myself to be medically trained as I have a Senior First Aid Certificate, although that would clearly not make me qualified to decide whether someone deserved their operation paid for or not. They didn't enjoy these further questions, refusing to answer them. I will be taking it up with the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman.

So, that brought us to operation day...which I will put in the next entry.