Hi Deb - I wish I'd read your post earlier - I didn't have any questions to ask!
I was getting some bits of paper together this morning, which was lucky, as we had to take our passports to prove we're New Zealanders (so we get on the publicly funded list), I then read the leaflet they sent us 2 month ago and it said I'd have an internal ultra-sound scan done.
So as expected, I did get my peak on the CBFM this morning and told the FS and he asked which side I thought I'd OV from and I said left - so when he looked there was a 20mm folicle ready to pop on my left ovary (I actually think the right one is dud, I never feel anything on that side).
Anyway we met with the specialist - a very friendly, very good looking chap in his early 40s, and he took our history. I gave him DH's latest SA results, which he said whilst much better, probably not good enough to get pregnant - though he did say not low enough to say we don't ever need to use contraception again in the future. I was surprised that he didn't ask for another SA to be done, but I guess he knows that whilst DH is producing sperm, it'll probably never get into the 10s of millions, even with the vitamins. He said that in all honesty ICSI is the only way to go for us. We don't qualify for free treatment until we have been trying a year (August) and then the waiting list is 11 months after that - so nothing would happen til next July at the earliest, but if we go privately we can start in 2 weeks time (next CD1).
So DH and I have a lot to think about and of course the $$ side of things, but I expect if we don't start in 2 weeks time, it'llbe the cycle after. We were given lots of stuff to read and a dvd to watch and details of a financial plan, where you pay for 3 cycles, and if you don't get a baby after that, then you get 70% of your money back. The only negative things about this is, if you get pg on the first cycle, you've paid a lot for it, whereas if you get pg the second it's almost break even. Though with only 35% chance of it happenning first time and 85% after 3 tries, I think this is the way we'll go. Not sure where we'll get the cash from - though we have 2/3 of the cost on hand, so would only need to borrow part of it!
I'm sure there's more to add, but it's morning tea, then I have my restless year 11s. I teach business studies to 15-18 year olds, so in the main, they are great kids!