Last night J and I finally got our taxes filed. I had all my infertility receipts in hand. They photo copied them, calculated the percentage and well, nothing. Even though we were well above the 7.5% or whatever it was we were not above the dollar amount. So no savings there.
Still we are getting a refund. All of which is now ear marked for the donor egg cycle when he gets back home. I'm thinking that I should be able to save up enough of his measly pay to help with the rest of the money I need towards the donor egg cycle.
Its something. But with budget cuts, even though J will be in a combat zone, he won't be getting combat pay. Nope. Our soldiers are again getting the royal treatment minus the vaseline.
As for pay raise this year I think it was noted that they would be getting a whopping 0.5% pay raise which amounts to about maybe another tax bracket so he'll never see it.
I'm not cranky or anything.
Pregnancy or PMS symptoms:
tired
cranky
sore breasts
nauseated
In a few more days I can test. In a few more days I can call my RE doctor and plead for a CD21 progesterone test. Like "Another Dreamer" said I could have a good embryo but a poorly working corpus luteum and that could mess it all up. Probably what happened to my very first pregnancy too.
Hope its early pregnancy symptoms :-) FX
ReplyDeleteYou and me both. I'm running out of J time.
DeleteGood luck with the POAS. And glad you got the taxes done.
ReplyDeleteI'm almost afraid to poas this week.
DeleteWe apparently didn't spend enough either to get any sort of medical deduction. Seems wrong somehow. Yay for a refund though, and sending you high progesterone, sticky embryo thoughts xoxo
ReplyDeleteThanks. And taxes are just annoying when you find out you aren't getting as much back as you'd like especially when you'd hope to put it all towards another treatment.
DeleteDoing taxes is such a sobering experience. I'm sorry that there wasn't more to the refund following the treatments.
ReplyDeleteI pray you're experiencing pregnancy symptoms. That will make up for the refund.
I'm cautiously hopeful. Tomorrow I'm going to call my RE and see if they'll put me in for the lab work for Tuesday on the progesterone.
DeleteI don't understand. How could you have met the 7.5% requirement but not a monetary amount. I haven't heard of a monetary amount being required. Hubby's step-dad is an accountant and he didn't mention it, either.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen this: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc502.html
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It lays out everything that qualifies as medical deductions. Perhaps you can find some more to deduct.
Standard deduction was more than the medical expenses.
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