One woman’s tale of love, depression, IVF after 40.
This infertility malarkey requires us to take a number of rather wide leaps of faith. During an IVF cycle we might find ourselves willingly injecting ourselves with various synthetic hormones and other lovely scientific creations designed to stimulate our bodies into doing all manner of amazing things.
Of course, the honour of doing this only occurs [...]
Greek mythology tells of a king who was punished by Zeus. Sisyphus was sentenced to an eternity of rolling a huge bolder uphill only to watch it roll down again. The frustrating and repetitive nature of this task resulted in the expression of Sisyphean meaning something that is pointless or unrewarding. We do not need [...]
Lifeslurper is having a bad day week month.
There are about eighteen incomplete posts half written for this blog, most of them not worth publishing. Why, that has never stopped me before, I hear you ask.
I feel completely without inspiration and purpose. Twins states I continue to spend most of my existence in. Conditions this blog [...]
Today Lifeslurper is featuring our very first guest blogger.
It is very fitting that this inaugural occasion should be given to Jodie Flynn; a woman who carries much of my survival through the wretchedness I know as IVF.
Recently Lifeslurper was ‘outed’ by a reader comment left by Jodie. Not that I was keeping secrets. Clearly anyone [...]
Well it is now over a month since our latest IVF cycle not so much ended with a bang, but died with a whimper. Wobbles and I are still scratching our heads as to which way to go. We are officially on the clinic’s donor egg top 100 list, languishing somewhere near the end of [...]
A recent widely circulated report saw claims that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s twins had been conceived via IVF. The standard unnamed “source” was quoted as saying IVF was used so Jolie “wouldn’t have to deal with the stress of trying to get pregnant.”
A few short (hopefully fictionalized) sentences and a world filled with many [...]
Lifeslurper has been experiencing the birthday blues particularly badly. Prior to IVF never did I fear the clicking over of another year. Signing up for ART at 42 my age was said to make a successful attempt at IVF unlikely. This week I turned 44.
All along advanced age has been suggested as the ultimate handicap [...]
Until my body manages to produce bar-coded mucus, Lifeslurper has not got much hope of understanding her own fertility – or lack thereof.
Is it too much to ask of medical science to create a special barcode reader for female mucus? A reader that is attached to its own measurement tool not unlike the DEFense readiness [...]
Lifeslurper is surely feeling the response to reader’s thoughts on the previous post, The Greatest Infertility Myths and Clichés. I had to admit, thanks to high-levels of secrecy aimed at avoiding future embarrassment, when that baby does not ‘materialise’ after a lengthy round of IVF cycles, I am mostly free of the stupid things people [...]
Sometimes it seems convenient to make infertility and the resulting IVF treatments the scapegoat for my problems.
Truth is, I had issues with depression, had lost my career, had gained weight, and had lost track of dreams (not necessarily in that order) before IVF entered the picture.
I can not blame infertility for my woes. However, the [...]
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