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Lifeslurper resides in a big brown land called Auuustralia. Her early years remain a mystery cloaked in a veil of depression. Age 42 Lifeslurper meets the vague but gorgeous Wobbles. “What took him so long to arrive?” She asks. They make their way together in the world just fine, but are not fine to make a baby – not without some outside help. Enter ART and 2008 the year of 4 IVF cycles & one lousy big fat negative. Lifeslurper is now 46 years old! Time for a baby is running out fast, so too is her sanity. Now it's 2010 - Lifeslurper and Wobbles are getting serious about this baby making business. Donor Egg Cycles are the way of the future and the future is NOW!

Groomed for IVF

On the face of things, my fertility specialist and hairdresser have very little in common. Their work involves distinctly different regions of the body. Their skills potentially contribute to vastly different outcomes.

 

Heartbreak on admittedly varying scales can often be the most obvious result of their desire to experiment or use creativity.

 

At this stage of my life, I need my hairdresser almost as much as I need my fertility specialist. 

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Lifeslurper by a crooked nose

 

Deformed Slurper

Deformed Slurper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is it about infertility that allows us as women to throw all caution to the wind, or at least to the door of our nearest fertility clinic?

 

There is something about the constant medical intervention of ART that makes us become somewhat fearless in the face of repeated surgery, anaesthetic and medication taking.

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Joining the French Whooping Legion

Lifeslurper has just returned from her 87th kazillionth doctors appointment in recent months. I am talking general practitioner here, the type of doctor you go see about everyday stuff, as opposed to the fertility specialist you travel millions of miles and pay zillions of dollars to see about how to not make a baby. Continue reading Joining the French Whooping Legion

Public Service Announcement from Lifeslurper

Call off the search and rescue people!

 

Remember me?

 

I am still here. Thank you for your cards and flowers.

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