psyche re-screen for 3rd donation

i went into the office to retake the 'are you crazy' computer test. according to some law, the records need to be updated every year. so instead of doing the psyche interview over the phone like last time, i had to go to the office in person and take the 50 minute test. i loved it. the questions are so funny. questions like: I hear voices other people dont hear. Somebody is out to get me for sure. My father is (was) a bad person. I wish i weren't bothered by sexual thoughts.

Its a true false quiz. and some of the questions are a little tricky: Have you ever not not had a strong fear for an inanimate object?

the next step is to speak with a psychologist over the phone about my answers to the quiz, and how i felt about the last donations and all that normal psyche re-screen stuff. i'm waiting to hear back from her. I sent an email to my case coordinator to let him know i took the psyche rescreen computer quiz.

i requested a copy of the psyche test results from last year, i want to compare the results from last time and this time. according to the person at the office, people's results dont really vary much.
I also requested a copy of my otis-gamma IQ test for MENSA. i dont know if i want to fork out $50 a year just to have a MENSA card. but it would be funny to have. I really wanted to see which questions i answered incorrectly. But aside from MENSA theres a couple other high IQ societies i qualify for, those would be cool to join just for fun.

reimbursement issue resolved

i received my check for the reimbursements today. $576. they got everything correct, i got $128 per trip i drove to the appointments and back for the mileage. so everything worked out. i have been fully reimbursed. one month and 9 days later.

great links

here are a few links for general egg donation process questions:

http://www.americanfertility.com/services/eggdonor-donor.php

http://www.asrm.org/Patients/topics/eggdonation.html

http://health.howstuffworks.com/egg-donation.htm

those are really good informational websites for egg donation questions.

here are a few for lupron questions:

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2009/019943s029,020011s036lbl.pdf

http://movingmountainsforkids.com/precociouspuberty.asp

http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/hormones/a/lupron.htm

http://coe.ucsf.edu/fibroids/bg_treatment.html

It has been almost a whole month since my second donation. I felt a little funny in my right ovary around ovulation time (just before and during spinnbarkheit). almost crampy. It seems like the sensations were ovulation sensations, and they were more intense because of the healing process, or maybe that was just some healing stuff going on. or something.

i finally heard back about the reimbursements. they need prescription labels for the zovia pills i bought. when i sent in the form, I included the receipts from the store, the information booklet, and a printout from my credit card with the same info. but that wasn't enough. they sent my case coordinator a message that i needed to further prove that i bought those items by going to the pharmacy and getting a printout of the labels. So i went to the pharmacy and got the informational booklet printed out again, and a form that showed the medication and the fertility doctor's name and all that. hopefully that will be enough. the pharmacist said she couldn't print up the labels for the first purchase because it was made at a pharmacy in los angeles. if i have to go to los angeles to get a reprint of the zovia labels to prove to them i bought the zovia, i'm going to make them pay for the gas.

another thing that made me upset about the reimbursements: they say they're only going to cover $100 for the car rental. My car rental bill came out to $112 after taxes and everything. and then i had to put gas in the tank to even get up to los angeles, because they gave me the car rental with an empty tank (naturally) so i paid about $40 for gas. the agency says they cap their reimbursements for car rental at $100 and they cannot reimburse above that, and i'm wondering, who the hell can get a car rental to go 240 miles for under $100 after taxes and insurance AND gas?? thats not at all reasonable. so i'm going through a slow moving bureaucratic process to get properly reimbursed for the damn rental car. i just called around to several rental car places in my area to get quotes to send to the agency. i'll keep you updated.