Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Feeling Hopeless

Well might as well let everyone else know. Zech and I's plan for parenthood have sort of come to a stand still right now. All of my tests came back just fine, surprisingly enough. Zech's test, however, did not. He's not infertile, but we were told its basically not going to happen naturally "right now". Now, this low count could be due to a few different things, either its just really how he is, or it could just be his body's way of reacting to the amount of stress and constant heat he is around all day. But we wont really know because the Army, as always, has some lame excuse as to why they cannot see him right now. My doctor talked to us when we found out the results and wanted Zech to see a Urologist. All he would need to do would be to go to his doctor on Ft Hood and get a referral to see this other doctor affiliated with mine. But when we called Tricare (our insurance company) to set up the referral appointment, they basically told us that there was no sense in them wasting their time on him since he only has a few months left of active duty service. What a great way to treat a human being who risked their life for this country! We could choose to pay out of pocket for him to be seen right now, but depending on what exactly is wrong, it could cost us the sort of money we dont have. We have Houston to be worrying about right now, and need all of our extra money to stock up for that. So as of right now we are just trying "natural remedies" to try to boost his count, and pray to God its all going to work out. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers. This has really been a hard pill to swallow for us.

1 comment:

susan said...

call the VA hospital, let them know what Tricare said, word for word about the whole 'not worth wasting their time on him' see what type of benefits zech will get since he is a veteran. also depending on his job while in iraq, there may be a link to his problem due to exposure to burn pits, etc., and he needs to look into finding compensation for that.