On the shelf of a present-day drugstore one can find many different types of ovulation test kits. Some help a woman to look for changes in her urine. Others allow the kit user to watch for changes in her saliva. None of those ovulation test kits rely on long-forgotten techniques, techniques such as those used by ancient tellers of fortune. Advances in the world of medicine have aided the development of new techniques, techniques that expedite performance of at-home medical testing. The advances in at-home testing have aided the creation of more ways to guarantee the overcoming of problems, problems with fertility.
During the first half of 1986, a young couple from Iran walked into a store in Santa Monica, California. They did not enter that store in search of ovulation test kits. They wanted to talk with the store owner. Childless, the couple wanted to learn how they could obtain help from medical professionals in Los Angeles County.
The man and wife realized that there were in L.A. County doctors who understood how to help a couple that had struggled to have children. Those doctors made a point of staying up-to-date on fertility issues. Those doctors knew when and how a childless couple could make use of ovulation test kits.
The couple had obtained a one year tourist visa, and had come to the U.S. As they spoke with the store owner, a man who had emigrated from Iran, they learned a good deal about how to get some type of health insurance. The store owner told the young pair that they should secure such insurance, so that they would incur fewer costs while exploring the various fertility treatments.
The store owner did not know anything about ovulation testing. The store owner had never sold, nor did he plan to sell, any of the ovulation test kits. The store owner simply appreciated the degree to which medical insurance had cut the medical expenses in his own household.
Now it so happens that the store owner had recently seen his 8 month old son hospitalized. The store owner had witnessed the manner in which the family’s access to good medical care had helped to avert what could have been a real medical tragedy. At the same time, the store owner understood why the visitors from Iran wanted to have children. The store owner loved his own children.
After getting guidance from that store owner, the childless couple from Iran did obtain health insurance. They then began learning about the various procedures that they could explore, in an effort to increase the likelihood that they might become parents. The couple began to secure the needed equipment, things such as the ovulation test kits.
The woman who aspired to be a mother did not spend all or her time in a doctor’s office. She also set out to acquire the skills that could help her to care for her desired infant. One afternoon, she volunteered to care for the infant son of the store owner. Her services gave the baby’s mother needed assurance, assurance that the child would get his scheduled antibiotics. The young substitute baby sitter learned how to administer medication to an infant of 8 months.
A desire for testing services and testing equipment had pushed the young couple to visit that one Santa Monica market. After returning from Iran, the young couple kept in touch with the store owner. They let him know that they had become parents.