Welcome back to Hades!

Hades welcomes you! Please come again!

Let's start by noting that it is not in my nature to give things or people a second chance. Not, at least, without a formal written apology or staged speech and preferably overlooked and/or signed off on by the President of the United States or somebody of similar high rank and authority. I am not a cruel person, mind you, and actually not that stubborn either; but if you wrong me, I tend to hold a grudge; for a very long time… and in most cases, forever.

It is also not in my nature to do about-faces and suck things up while remaining quiet and complacent. No... not ever. Well... hardly ever.

There are many things about this situation that go completely against my nature, which make this difficult to explain why we are returning, once again, to the Hades Clinic, (residence of Dr. Evil), mere weeks from sending in our last and final big check for services rendered. Or in my case, not quite rendered. More like... for services "suffered".

So I’ll just relay the series of events and hope that people will agree. Or disagree… whichever you chose. But at least see the path of reason and logic I’ve chosen to follow in this case.

Per my previous blog, we had made an appointment at the other clinic which was supposed to take place today. That would have been our $350 consultation to tell us all the things we already know. And to be fair, maybe some stuff we knew at one point but have since blocked out of our memories for obvious reasons. Because of the time frame we were working within, I asked Drake to please call them back and explain our timeline and make sure that even though they wouldn’t see us until the 18th, that we would still be able to do her first insem in a couple of weeks. She did. And the answer was firmly “NO”. In fact… I think it was closer to “not a chance in hell, fool”. It was during this conversation/inquiry where we learned that the $350 consult was only 1 step in the initiation process at this clinic and to follow that would be a physical exam (makes sense but isn’t that INCLUDED in the consult?) and then an appointment with a social worker. Because I guess being lesbians is HARD or something and we need guidance counselling. ALL of these, mind you, would neccessitate separate appointments and accrue separate charges. Here's a thought: WTF??? That’s not at all how it worked at Hades. So after much deliberation, we broke down and called the one nurse that we always had a good experience with at Hades. Dr. Wild Bill’s nurse, to be precise. We explained that we were moving to option B and the "second string womb" and her response was simply and delightfully... “no problem. consider yourselves grand-fathered in. here’s a list of blood tests you can get handled by your private doc so it’s covered by insurance and just send in the results, call me when you want to LH shot and ultrasound and we’ll get it taken care of.” I’m sorry, did I just swallow my own tongue or did Hades actually just FREEZE THE FUCK OVER??? So back to Hades we go, sans consult, sans the expenses associated with consult and in plenty of time to make insem date # 1… in fact so much time that we can actually tail gate to it! Because that would be fun!!! We anticipate an ovulation day circa the first week in march but who really knows.

And because I've been so delinquent, I am going to populate a second blog post today (hopefully) on an entirely separate issue. Cuz I got a lot to say but they each deserve their own titles.