Thanks for the advice and good babymaking vibes :) I am still sick today, so I called and will see my doctor tomorrow at 11:45 (she had no openings today). I am all kinds of ragey due to being sick, going off my ADs, and this here baby doctor bullshit:

Hi, J. I just got off the phone with CLINIC A and have decided to use FedEx to have the tank and embryos couriered. I am going to have the consent form from CLINIC A notarized today and mail it over to them. Once they have it, I'll contact you to have the tank FedExed to them (probably early next week), and then they will FedEx it back to you.

I have to say that I am disappointed that I'm having to be stressed out and inconvenienced (again) due to the fact that Dr. Q's office wasn't established when I first worked with him. I knew that going in, but I didn't realize that I would be tasked with the logistics, planning and transport of sperm and now embryos with little to no assistance from YOUR CLINIC. Just so you understand my frustration, here is what I had to do back in April of 09:

• Per Dr. Q's office, I had the sperm shipped to a clinic located in Pasadena, CA (I believe it was CLINIC B).
• Traveled from my home in the San Fernando Valley to the temporary Glendale office to pick up the tank.
• Traveled to Pasadena to pick up sperm.
• Delivered the sperm from the Pasadena clinic to CLINIC A in Los Angeles (why the sperm wasn't sent to CLINIC A originally, I'm not sure).
• Returned to my home in SFV.

This took me half a day and I had to take time off work to do it. I wasn't able to use a courier service as I was only made aware of this a few days prior to my transfer date (yet another frustration in the process). It was stressful and seemed completely avoidable.

Now I will pay $200 or repeat the above process a few days before my estimated transfer date. Again, it is stressful and could have been avoided. The transfer of the embryos from CLINIC A should have been planned for and done without my having to be so inconvenienced. I always assumed that my embryos would have been transferred to Dr. Q's facility on its completion as he is my doctor and his facility is where any future FET would take place. Not to mention that I met with Dr. Q in December of 2011 to discuss a future FET - why wasn't this process planned for at that point, which would have been months in advance of the transfer?

I realize that I didn't work with you at that time and I'm sorry to dump all of this on you, but I hope that your office would want to know if a patient is displeased. Also, perhaps this will help your office get a plan in place for this scenario, which could easily happen again with another patient.

Thank you, J. I will be in touch once CLINIC A has the notarized form.

GLAMCOOKIESMASH!

Cause I just got the weirdest looking, fakey message cancelling an order I never made...

I got that, too! They really should have changed the date on the order, considering the message said they cancelled the order that was made that day.

I've also just received a call on my cell from the Continental Air reservations system. I didn't listen to the message. I swear, I'm going to leave work and get waylaid by short-haired men in sunglasses with thingies in their ears.

this here baby doctor bullshit

Wow, that is ridiculous and infuriating.

I hope you feel better soon, and good luck with the transfer!

I'm waiting at the doctor's office and I really need to pee (fire), but I'm guessing they'll want me to pee (fire) in a cup to test it, so I'm holding it, but GOING TO BURST. Fire.

What do you think the thinking is? That we'll be so worried about getting a few of Amazon's dollars by mistake/attached to this weird book that we'll rush over with our bank accounts right away?!

Or they're hoping to tap into any One-Touch Payment things we may have when we go "What the hell?" and click on the links.

These scams work because there are people who go "Oh, dear, something's wrong! I must fix it!" Though that of course ties in to "Someone's wrong on the Internet, I must fix it!"

I'm waiting at the doctor's office and I really need to pee (fire), but I'm guessing they'll want me to pee (fire) in a cup to test it, so I'm holding it, but GOING TO BURST. Fire.

Can't you tell the receptionist (or nurse) you really need to pee, but you expect your doctor will want a sample? I always do and they usually just give me a cup and let me give the sample before the doctor is ready to see me.

Spontaneous combustion usually gets their attention.

In my medical news the doctor called and my A1C which was at 7.2 is now 6.5. Still JUST over the line for diabetes, but a major improvement.

Nice Toddson

Good news, Toddson.