After meeting 3 specialists in Delhi and getting disheartened, my DH
joined me in Delhi and we took off to Kolkata to visit another specialist and
also to take some time off from stress for a few days by exploring Kolkata.
First things first, a month prior to heading to Delhi, I had called Dr.
Baidyanath Chakraborty (Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Salt Lake City,
Kolkata) for an appointment. Since he has a busy schedule, one has
to wait for a month (plus/minus few weeks) to get an appointment. Well, it
isn't just a simple Doctor's Appointment; they issue you a specific date and
time for visiting the institute. You need to carry a print-out of your
Appointment Confirmation E-mail sent by the institute, else the guard won't let
you in. Reaching the venue 30-60 minutes prior to your appointment is
recommended, as their waiting area (in 2013) on ground floor was not very big,
with limited number of chairs provided. Since our time of visit was in Apr'13,
9:30AM appointment suited us well to beat the heat outside and also to find a
good seat with a fan above; we reached the institute at 9AM and had to wait for
almost 2 hours just to get our name called (FYI, we were 5th in queue for that
day).
Next step was to check the female partner's height and weight, then a
brief wait again, and then head to the first floor to meet a Data Operator to
feed all possible details of medical history of both partners into their
system. After some more wait, we were finally sent to a hall on ground floor to
meet Dr. Chakraborty.
Then a disgusting and embarrassing thing took place. Turn by turn, all
females were asked to go to a hallway and then a vaginal test was conducted by
a junior lady doctor by inserting her finger(s), not a probe; without even
enquiring about the diagnosis/prognosis.
Anyway, after the physical examination, me and my DH were sent to
finally meet Dr. Chakraborty. After explaining our case (in spite of narrating
it to the Data Operator), DH's physical examination was done. His conclusion
was to meet another Uro-Andrologist as he didn't have the expertise on male
infertility. He recommended meeting Dr. Rupin Shah in Mumbai.
Since we were already in Kolkata, we made our
trip fruitful by visiting Belur Math, Dakhineswar Kalibadi, Kalighat Temple and
a few local markets. Unfortunately, because of the strict Airline Rules, we
couldn't carry the famous Kolkata Roshogullas back home for our folks, but no
one could stop us from carrying different shapes and flavours of Sondesh :)
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