Update from today's RE visit

It's been raining cats & dogs since last night and sure enough, still raining when I leave for my appt. So it normally takes me a hour to get to my RE's office(on dry roads). Today, I woke up late, so I left late but somehow made it in 45 mins!! Not exactly sure how that is even possible, sure I was speeding a little, but not that much. Plus, along with the down-pour there were also some mild issues of flooded areas. :< I was so NOT impressed. Any other Dr, I would have rescheduled my appt to a different, (dryer) day, but not my RE!

On to the appt details.......Basically, he didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. :( Except the part where DH will have to do another SA, since it's been over 2 years. WAU-Waaaauuuuu I said, DH is going to be delighted to hear that, not! He did say that sometimes un-used meds are returned or the pharmacy donates meds and that he could offer me some of those to keep the cost down a little. Other than that, the only thing he said he would do differently, would be to stimulate my ovaries a little more so that I could produce a greater number of eggs.

So we have two options:

Door #1 is offering an IVF C for the rough estimate of $10,000(ten, ten, thousand, thousand, thousand, then the word dollars fading into the echo) All that is done with this option is, regular IVF w/ICSI and the possibility of freezing the leftovers should there be any of that quality.

not to be out done...

Door #2 offers an exciting, multi-faceting, more expensive option that lands us around $25,000(twenty-five what?!?!? the echo can't even fathom this amount) However, this option has more to offer, with 3 fresh cycles, and up to 3 FET's. AND, the most important factor of all, if no "live birth" has taken place after all C's, 80% of the cost is refunded! But, keep in mind, if pregnancy were to occur after the 1st C, you have then paid way more than door #2 was offering in the first place and you cannot use those other C's to TTC siblings.

Needless to say, DH & I have A LOT of talking, and discussing and probly some more talking to do. So those are my choices, What do you think? What would you do? What are the pro's & con's that you see with these 2 options?