Resolve linked to this. Having dealt with half of these, I can honestly say these well meaning questions and comments do more harm than good. I’d add a 13th item – don’t mention adoption. We know it’s a option. We haven’t forgotten. But in a lot of cases it’s too soon to consider or it simply is not the right choice OR […]
12 things you should never ask
August 13, 2012 | infertility, life | Permalink
It all started with yoga…
For most of my life I have been lazy and out of shape. It’s just my thing. Also, I have a genetic condition that affects my lungs’ ability to oxygenate my blood. Again, just sort of my thing. I can only assume that the whole lack of oxygen situation probably played a pretty big roll in the not wanting to run around business, but for most […]
A reversal of fortune?
August 3, 2012 | health, infertility, life | Permalink
Dare I dream? I’d better not, but I can at least pat myself on the back for self advocacy. In addition to deciding that I needed a second opinion, I also emailed my Interventional Radiologist, Dr T, requesting that he put me in touch with his colleague who does fallopian tube recanalization. Recanalization is any procedure that literally reopens […]
In Other News
I got my second Botox treatment yesterday. For migraine management, not anything cosmetic. It still seems strange to me that anyone would use the root ‘tox’ in a drug name. I think we can assume that was not accidental. Happily, I don’t mind be reminded of the fact that I have Botulism toxin under the skin of my face, neck, […]
Disclaimer
I curse. My grammer, typing, and spelling are horrendous. I don’t have the aptitude or attention to correct any of it. Sorry.
A second opinion
August 2, 2012 | health, infertility, life | Permalink
It’s time for a second opinion. I could list all the things that my reproductive endocrinologist has done, not done, said, not said, forgotten, glossed over, fucking made light of, or simply shrugged off, and maybe you would get how disappointed and angered I am by this woman, but well, it’s a long list. I am not even […]
Ouch
August 1, 2012 | health, infertility, life | Permalink
So the good news is that I wont be taking any fertility drugs. Whew. The bad news is I wont be participating in the AMIGOS study. I did not qualify. Not because I have an obstructed fallopian tube. Not because I had a grapefruit sized cyst on my right ovary. Not because I have crappy hormone levels. Not […]
Tomorrow
July 31, 2012 | health, infertility, life | Permalink
We are going tomorrow to see if we qualify for a that study that would give us four months of IUI with fertility drugs. I have never been so torn about anything. Never wanted to do and not do something so equally in my entire life. Well, that’s not true. I really don’t want to do this, not at all, but I would […]
Lessons in compromise. And in eating your words.
July 25, 2012 | infertility, life | Permalink
When I first started thinking about having a family – this was in my late 20s or early 30s – I was exceptionally vocal about how I would never take fertility drugs. I thought it was selfish and foolhardy to do so. Why risk bringing more than one baby into this world when there were already too many who needed good homes. I […]
A little History
July 25, 2012 | health, infertility, life | Permalink
So here is the scoop… I am 38, well I was 37 when we started. In early spring of 2011, my beau and I stopped using birth control. By June, I decided I wanted to have a better idea of how shit worked so, by July I had a full month of fertility charting. By the time October […]
Unlucky 13
July 24, 2012 | infertility, life | Permalink
It’s been 13 months. More maybe, but 13 for sure. 13 attempts. 13 charts. 13 thermal shifts. 13 two-week-waits. 13 periods. 13 failures. 13 heartbreaks. Fuck 13.
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