First consult with donor doctor - and A New Hope! (Not the star wars kind)

I had an awesome conversation with the doctor today.  He not only went over the donor embryo program with me (which works completely differently than how I thought), he went over all of my options.  He had looked at all of my test results before calling, and had a lot of information to give me.

For one thing, he said that even though I'm 36 but have the AMH levels of someone in their 40s, all it really means is that I produce fewer eggs.  He said the quality of my eggs should be the same as any other 36-year-old, and if we can use medication to help me produce as many eggs as other 36-year-olds, there is no reason why I couldn't get pregnant without resorting to IVF or donors.  He suggested starting with a clomid cycle and seeing how my body responds and go from there.  I'm really excited about that.

He also went over different options for using donated eggs with my husband's sperm, some of which aren't that much more expensive than the donor embryo program (but there is no money-back guarantee), so we will be able to consider those as well.  He mentioned (which I already knew) that using a donor program isn't age-dependent, so if we wanted to try to have our own, we should try that first. 

So!  I have to go in for a saline sonogram on CD 6-10, which will be coming up soon (today is CD 22, so I'm expecting my period to start sometime in the next couple of days).  And then we can get started!  Yay!  And if things look really, really bad on a medicated cycle, we can always start a donor cycle of some sort right away.

Speaking of donor cycles...  I assumed a donor embryo program would be comprised of embryos that had been donated, such as in the case of a couple who produced numerous embryos, had finished building their family, and didn't want to destroy the extras.  This is not the case.  Apparently, they take donor eggs and donor sperm and create embryos that are then matched with multiple couples, which is how they keep costs down.  So they're not embryos that have been donated, they are embryos created from donor eggs and donor sperm.  It sounds kind of weird, but I find that I'm not as excited about that.  For one thing, my husband's sperm are (mostly) fine.  It seems weird to deliberately use donor sperm when we don't have to.  It's one thing if the embryos had already been created (waste not, want not and all that), but that's not what's happening here.

Anyway, following the doctor's suggestion, I tried calling to schedule my saline sonogram, and they woman who answered was super short with me.  She informed me that they haven't received the doctor's notes yet, and when they do, they will be calling me.  Apparently, I shouldn't be bothering them.  I hate it when a doctor us super helpful and the support staff is the opposite.  Don't they realize that if I'm coming there as a patient, I'm probably not in the best frame of mind?  I'm starting my period any day now!  I need to schedule this test ASAP!  I don't have months to waste, my AMH is dropping incredibly quickly!