As luck would have it, the doctor's office I called had a cancellation today, so I was able to get an afternoon appointment. I met with Dr. Metzger, who was basically perplexed about how to quantify the miniscule risk of CMV infection from an embryo (go figure-- there's not a lot of data on that) coupled with the very small risk of even symptomatic CMV, should infection occur. He said 90% of active CMV infections are asymptomatic, and the other 10% tend to be sub-clinical (lowgrade fever, general malaise). Oh, and I've cared for an actively CMV infected infant, lived with a CMV+ husband, and previously carried for a CMV+ couple. So no real worries about risk to me.
Anyway, we had an interesting discussion and that was that. He is sending his consult notes to Houston IVF.
Hoping M gets in to see the doctor in Houston just as quickly.
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