Waiting......

I had spent so much time worrying about the CGH test results and whether they would be back in time for my surrogate to prepare for the May cycle. Of course, I got those with plenty of time to spare but am now still waiting on the DQ/HLA test results. The clinic I go to requires this test even though I'm using a surrogate since it's possible (although unlikely) that she could have a match with my husband. I won't go into explaining the whole DQ/HLA matching theory. I'm not even sure I could explain it properly. I've never spent much time researching it since my DH and I did not have the match. Suffice it to say that having a match is bad....so bad that if by some small chance my surrogate has the match with DH they will strongly advise us not to transfer to her.

My surrogate is supposed to start lupron on Sunday. The problem is the clinic won't do up her official calendar or issue her prescriptions until they have the test result back. The lab that processes the results is not a part of the clinic. They received my surrogate's blood on the 8th and told us the results would take 7-10 business days. We thought that gave us plenty of time. Then, we were informed that they don't count Fridays as business days. Even so, I figured we would be okay since yesterday was Day 10 according to the lab's business days. When we hadn't heard anything, I asked my nurse to call them. She did so and was told to call back Friday by 2:00. This is a big problem. Friday afternoon there is 3 hours later here and I don't think we could have a pharmacy ship out meds. for Saturday receipt so late in the day. My nurse said if I wanted to try contact the lab myself to explain the situation and see if they'd have some sympathy to go ahead. She said they didn't have any for her.

So, even though I was feeling quite angry with the lab since they promised results by the 10th business day (which according to their calendar was already a ridiculously long time) yet were now telling us we couldn't have them until the 12th business day, I forced myself to take a few deep breaths and pick up the phone. I knew I probably wouldn't get far if I called them and was accusatory. I just got an answering machine so I sent over a fax explaining how important getting this result on Thursday was to us. I called about an hour later and spoke with someone who said she received it and had brought it to the attention of the Dr. but that he was still "calibrating the result and it was not even in the system yet." I'm not sure exactly what that means but it didn't sound good. I told her I was about ready to have a nervous breakdown not knowing if we'd have the result in time or not and could she please give me a call if she found out. I didn't receive a call back yesterday.

Postponing the cycle isn't even an option as my surrogate has already requested specific days off from work (she had to tell them last week before they did the schedule for next month). Her supervisor gave her a hard time so she had to go to the person above her to get approval. There is just no way she could get things changed around now without losing her job.

So, either I get this result or I no longer have a surrogate. Of course, I'm also worried about the possibility that she will have a match with my DH in which case I also no longer have a surrogate.

It's going to be a long day.