$15,910

That's how much poorer we'll be tomorrow, when we pay for IVF. At least we increased the limit on our credit card--maybe I'll get a round trip airfare to Chicago to see Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!--the best thing on NPR--out of this whole IVF deal.

It's horrible but last night I went online to look at what the average IVF costs. Then I started getting all these crazy ideas. Should we go to Argentina to do it? The Philippines? But travel is like my favorite thing in the world. In fact, I've never enjoyed traveling for work because I feel like it takes away from the joy that is going to somewhere new. And how fun can it be to spend your vacation in a foreign place, having an unknown doctor extracting eggs and creating embryos? "Hey honey, let's go to Patagonia while our blastocysts are growing!" And that would mean the vacation time I spend there isn't spent on maternity leave, which is what I'm hoping for currently. So I scrapped the whole idea and decided to stick with my relatively expensive clinic, where I know the docs and feel confident about the treatment.

However, the price above is for the BOGO deal. So DH and I feel pretty good knowing we have at least two shots at this. In the meantime, I'm going to get my fill of wine and raw fish tonight, hoping I can't enjoy them soon enough.