Urology apointment Monday...Please Pray

After Kenny's last blood cell count things have gone from bad to worse. He has gone from having about 2 million, to 14 million, and now 32 million white blood cells per/ml. That number should be under 1 million. Kenny will be seeing a urologist Monday to find a cause and see what the next step is. The Dr has not given us a reason to worry, but of course I am. Kenny's health is my number one priority. Please pray #1 for his health and that everything is ok, and #2 that this appointment gets us one step closer to being parents.

In the mean time we are still taking a break (NOT by choice). Until the we get something figured out with this white blood cell problem they don't want us wasting our money on treatment that won't work.

In the mean time...

We should be getting Kenny's white blood cell count soon, hopefully next week, a little too late. We have already missed our chance to try this cycle so even if things check out we will still have to wait for next cycle. In the mean time I have decided that the best thing I can do for my baby is to get myself healthy. I am back on weight watchers, which helped me lost a little over 10 last month. (I gained 6 of them back over the holidays). I have also been walking and am planning to start running next week. It has been YEARS since the last time I ran! I am going to start the couch to 5K plan which slowly increases the amount of time that you run each session. So, wish me luck!

taking a month off:(

We are taking this month off from the baby making business. We went in at the start of this cycle and Kenny's white blood cell count is still too high (1 million is considered to be high and he had 12.4 million). They don't want us wasting our money on procedures when he has that many white blood cells. They cause all sorts of sperm problems and interfere with implantation. They want him to finish his antibiotics, then come in for another semen analysis to see if it helped. If not, and his white blood cell count is still to high after the antibiotics they will send us to a urologist to see what is causing the problem and get them under control. Please pray that is was just an infection and it clears up so we can start again for our next cycle. In the mean time, Kenny and I are using this time to focus on each other and our wonderful life together. We are so blessed to be so in love with each other and in a way it is nice to be able to focus all my attention on my wonderful husband.

I should mention that a prostate infection isn't serious or painful. The only side effect is infertility and the Dr said many people go years with them without ever knowing until they try to have children.