In the Womb of *a* Future

I came back from my City X trip today morning itself. I spent the past two days at the above-indicated place. A detailed history of my fertility woes was noted and a new file with a new doc was created.

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The centre is run by a husband and wife duo DJ and SJ, and both of them are doctors of repute. In fact DJ knew me as a kid, but we lost regular contact while I was in my Wonder Years. I had a lot of frank discussion with DJ and I posed him the same question, I have been posing a lot of my doctors….why do so many other people who have so many known root causes for infertility, so lucky in procreating (like my past-druggie cousin, and a schoolmate who was a Pan Parag fan). This guy was the only one who had a funny answer to that. He quipped, “Does every hardworking guy get a promotion?” Ah, thanks! Pretty soothing, you know! I have to admit, this was the only time I was smiling at the response.

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DJ began his sermon with the line – It takes only one sperm to conceive!

[I hate that line]

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The centre has three floors. There is a beautifully appointed garden as soon as one takes the stairs to the main glass entrance. There is a huge lobby and reception area with comfy sofas and chairs, plenty of time-pass magazines, newspapers and a huge Flat Screen TV. Different rooms have different titles (mostly Hindi) and you don’t get to meet the highnesses in one go. There is several in-between staff who garners tad-bit information on various issues so that the last guys have most of it collected even before they actually meet the patients. The centre is clean and has good interiors. I have been through several grades of hospitals lately and this one did not smell yucky at all.

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I spent Friday and Saturday there and took a good view at the facility. IVF is now chalked out for me. These docs have a facility that attendants and patients can watch procedures being done for them through a network of cameras and projectors. I had the pleasure of seeing an ICSI procedure taking place. The couple for whom the procedure was being done were also present and I got to see, how the sperm selection was done, how the champs were carefully chosen and taken into the pipette and how the eggs were brought in 6 o’clock or 12 o’clock position and the sperm was directly introduced into them. This couple for whom I was there had 9 eggs on the go!

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So IVF will be conducted for me. I am already on with the prescription game-plan. I had a Leuprogon Depot (3.75mg) injection on September 20 and the next one that I will take will be on October 18. I have to start with Tab Wysolone from October 18, taken daily, once a day. I have six injections to take from November 2 onwards. Meanwhile, I am already on with Becosule, Syrup Astymin and Tab Fer. I have also vented some more blood yesterday for TSH and other tests. Phew!