The consultation

It was good. A few factors:

1. No suppression cycle.
2. I will be using Follistim Pens.
3. Cycle beginning around April 1, drugs begin.
4. My insurance (aforementioned CRAPPY insurance) is actually a good thing. They are offering a discount program that reduces single cycle cost by nearly $5000.
5. Drugs and PGD financially covered by a study, minus ~$100-200 out of our pocket.
6. Financing available.
7. She called me young.
8. She feels VERY confident.
9. Cycle works like this:
Days 1-10, drugs + monitoring
Retrieval: On day 1, half of total embryos are separated and frozen.
The other half are biopsied at day 3.
On day 5, two are replaced.
Day 10 after transfer, beta. Wham, bam, thank you ma'am.
If this cycle doesn't take, we can work with the remaining half of embies.
Assuming there are any. (Who let my inner demon in on this conversation? BAD INNER DEMON! GET OUT!)
10. The total of the IVF includes frozen storage for embies for two years. If within that time, we want to use the other half to try again, we have them. If we use them before the second year, that is refunded to us.

I may know more after I've processed the data. There's a lot to think about.

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Suzinalexa asks:
What's a follitism pen by the way?
That's a great question, Suzinalexa! This is a Follistim pen:

It is a neato method of administering injectible drugs without the messy junkie antics of a syringe and needle! Everything is pre-measured into a handy dandy spring-loaded WHAMMY! pen that you point and click. It's very exciting. It's very much cheating.

Never fear, the progesterone-in-oil-in-the-ass-cheek will be the old-fashioned way.