Two weeks later, Allie and Bobby headed to the doctor's. Allie had given her notice and she had worked her last day the day before.
Bobby took Allie's hand as they sat in the office. "Whatever happens, we will deal with it." She nodded as the doctor walked in.
"Alright. I think this final test was worth it." Dr. Copeland said as she sat down. After the hysteroscopy, she did a laparoscopy. She looked at the couple in front of her. "Allie, I was right about the blockage. Both tubes are completely block. I think it would be a miracle if you got pregnant."
"How did they get blocked? I don't understand." Allie replied.
"Based on the test, I think it's from hydrosalpinx, which is swelling and fluid at the end of a fallopian tube."
"How did Allie get that?" Bobby asked.
"Endometriosis." She replied. "Based on everything, there is nothing we can do. You have a one in ten thousand chance of ever getting pregnant without help."
Allie held in her tears. How did this happen? "What are our options?" Bobby asked.
"Well, I think in vitro fertilization is the best option if you want to have a child that is biologically yours."
"Alright, when do we start?" Allie said to her.
"You don't want to wait a few months. Come to terms with this."
"No," Allie replied. "I don't want to wait. I want to start immediately."
"Alright, if you're sure." She asked them.
"I'm very sure," Allie replied.
"Alright. I will prescribe you pregnyl. For ten days near the beginning of your menstrual cycle, you will inject yourself with it daily. I am also prescribing leuprolide as well. You will come to my office every three days to have blood work and an ultrasound. When your follicles are ready, I will give you a trigger shot that causes your eggs to mature fully. Thirty-six hours later, I will retrieve your eggs. Usually about eight to fifteen eggs I will take from you. Once we have them, we will combine them with Bobby's sperm and then they will be incubated overnight. Five days later, they will be embryos and they should ready to be implanted. We will freeze several of the embryos for future tries in case this one doesn't work. If the implantation works, then you will have a successful pregnancy and then a baby. If it doesn't, then we can try again. Each cycle takes four to six weeks from start to finish for each IVF treatment." She looked at them. "So, do you want to proceed?"
"Yes, we do," Allie replied. "We want a baby and this is what we have to do."
"Alright, then we will start the process."
"Great," Allie said.
They arrived home after the doctor's office. Allie looked at her husband. "You're okay with us doing this process right? I realize I made this decision and didn't ask you."
"I'm okay with this." He replied. "We want a baby and you're right. This is what we have to do."
She sighed. "I'm sorry. I should have told the doctor that we needed to talk about things. But I just went and made this decision."
He walked over to her. "Hey, it's okay. I have made decisions for us before without talking to you. And we want a baby. The doctor said this is what we have to do. So, I'm fine that. We made this decision together the moment we decided to have a baby and then the tests." He kissed her. She deepened the kiss and they headed upstairs to their bedroom.
A few days later, Allie met her sister for lunch. "Hey, how is everything?" Brianne asked her as she sat down.
"Well, we got our test results back," Allie replied.
"And? Nothing is wrong right?"
"I'm the reason we haven't gotten pregnant yet." She replied. "Apparently my tubes are blocked and there is a one in ten thousand chance of me getting pregnant."
"Al, I'm sorry," Brianne said squeezing her sister's hand.
"Thanks," Allie replied. "But we do have hope. We are going to try IVF. So, if that works, we will get pregnant and have a baby."
"I hope it works," Brianne replied.
"I hope so too." Allie sighed. "I just can't believe all this. I never knew anything was wrong with me. And now, I can't get pregnant because of it."
"You can't get pregnant the old fashion way but you just said you can get pregnant."
"I know but we have to do all this to have a baby." She handed her the paper.
"I admit it's a lot but it's worth it right?"
"Of course it is," Allie replied. "I want a baby so much. And this is what we have to do. I know it will be worth it, in the end, provide it all goes okay and I can carry to term."
"You will. I know you're meant to be a mom. So everything will work out."
"Thanks." Allie smiled. She hoped so.
"You okay?" AJ asked Bobby as they sat in a meeting about the current market. "You seem not here."
"I'm fine," Bobby replied. "Just a lot going on right now."
"With Allie?" AJ asked. "Is everything okay?"
"Yeah, things are fine." He replied. "We just are trying for a baby and it's taking longer than we thought it would."
"It will happen," AJ replied. "It just takes time sometimes."
"Yeah." He replied.
"What's going on?" AJ asked him again.
Bobby sighed. "We had some tests done and it showed that Allie can't get pregnant because her tubes are blocked."
"I'm sorry," AJ replied. "What are you guys going to do?"
"We have looked into the options and we are going to try in vitro. So, we will see."
"I'm sure it will work."
"Thanks." He replied. "Anyway, back to the market." He said picking up the papers. AJ nodded and they went back to work. He was glad that AJ was there to talk to about this. Bobby hoped the in vitro worked. He wanted to give Allie everything she wanted and that included a baby.