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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. 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 that number. The marching on of time means we are compelled to keep trying with our own eggs, and hope we turn up a non-‘degenerate’ one or eventually are in receipt of a donated version. Continue reading Turning to Dorothy the Dinosaur and Thomas the Tank Engine Watch out world! Lifeslurper is writing a book. Now before you all go out and pillage local publishers for showing such poor taste, please note this is only a pipe dream. One of those many things that infertility and the ensuing IVF treatments prompt me to recall. Creativity is extremely important to this little brown duck. Yet I freely admit that the daily grind has assisted me in largely losing touch with any real forms of imagination. I associate creativity with beauty; imaginings that can find a simple form of beauty in the most mundane of acts, places and people. Continue reading Lifeslurper’s nom de plumage It seems no matter how prepared you are for the ‘worst’ with IVF there are always greater depths to be explored. Our fourth IVF cycle has now ground its way to a complete end. There were a few close calls. Just when we thought we had it worked out, we were side-blinded – again. Leaving before dawn yesterday morning we got to the clinic without a hitch. Considering our recent travel incidents, this was an excellent start. Continue reading Stitching up the IVF game |
  
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