tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post111990897480625748..comments2024-03-09T10:14:49.991+00:00Comments on BarrenAlbion: What can I say about my body that hasn't already been said about Afghanistan?MsPrufrockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06533722219016814501noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-1120537751283662242005-07-05T05:29:00.000+01:002005-07-05T05:29:00.000+01:00I'm only here for the free shot in my ass with the...I'm only here for the free shot in my ass with the drug of my choice. Is this the 5 o'clock free crack giveaway? (Dave Chappelle, baby!)<BR/>I understand your feelings on the IF continuum. The whole situation bites ass, whether a couple has to endure multiple treatments of varying intensity, or sadly, have multiple loses of varying stages. You're not losing any street cred in my book.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04531843578369399243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-1120005840484809252005-06-29T01:44:00.000+01:002005-06-29T01:44:00.000+01:00SUCH a great post, Pru. It's what made not gettin...SUCH a great post, Pru. It's what made not getting pregnant right away bittersweet for me -- sad that it's becoming difficult, but glad that the cool girls won't hate me now. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-1120002713547060622005-06-29T00:51:00.000+01:002005-06-29T00:51:00.000+01:00y'know, just last night I was saying to the Monkey...y'know, just last night I was saying to the Monkey that I feel like we're in a war zone, stuck in the trenches on our own, fighting an enemy we cant see and not knowing if we will ever get out.<BR/><BR/>So when I read that you have the same fucked up thoughts about the IF hierarchy and "paying your dues" as I do, I realised that its not just me. We're all fucked up, but at least we're all fucked up in the same way for the same reasons. <BR/><BR/>Its IF War Syndrome.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02380190236086336023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-1120000302861668532005-06-29T00:11:00.000+01:002005-06-29T00:11:00.000+01:00Hey, I wonder if we could make some sort of IF haz...Hey, I wonder if we could make some sort of IF hazing ritual chart or graph. Like, if you have six IUI's, then that's the functional equivalent of 1 IVF. You could get extra points for an HSG or a gold star for a Lap. <BR/><BR/>It would be the Who's Who of Infertility. Now, there's a book to wanna be in!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-1119972659661816762005-06-28T16:30:00.000+01:002005-06-28T16:30:00.000+01:00You've expressed my inner thoughts as of late so w...You've expressed my inner thoughts as of late so well. Thanks for hanging out in my head. If you think your thoughts about IUI are bad, think about what I'm feeling now that my FIRST IUI worked. I was supposed to be in the trenches longer (not that 3 years isn't long enough). But I feel like a fraud. Like I have nothing to be complaining about. <BR/><BR/>Sorry the met prevented you from your favorite food. That totally sucks.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for letting me get that out. This is the biggest fraud in the IF world signing off, over and out Dame Pru and friends.PJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02467622800414603217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-1119921677236296002005-06-28T02:21:00.000+01:002005-06-28T02:21:00.000+01:00Hey - didn't mean to sound dismissive of your feel...Hey - didn't mean to sound dismissive of your feelings on the subject and I am usually not a fan of IUI's!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-1119921416523185112005-06-28T02:16:00.000+01:002005-06-28T02:16:00.000+01:00Oh yeah, you're fucked (welcome to my world). As ...Oh yeah, you're fucked (welcome to my world). As someone coming off IVF #6, you start to feel like one big ass (literally) motherfucking loser when it doesn't work again, again,chem, m/c, again, etc. It wrecks your body, your mind - your life. <BR/><BR/>IVF is sometimes the end of the road and the end of the road can be very, very scary. I so hope IUI #4 works for you. <BR/><BR/>Although you know I can't say enough about the retrieval drugs...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-1119918002349266642005-06-28T01:20:00.000+01:002005-06-28T01:20:00.000+01:00Ok so I was lying in the recovery room after my su...Ok so I was lying in the recovery room after my surgery last week, when my doctor came over to discuss how everything had looked in there. When he first told me that my tubes weren't blocked (contrary to what another doctor had said), I was disappointed that that meant I'd have no reason to do my second IVF. How sick?? "Luckily," he quickly reminded me that I'd have to continue doing IVF anyway since my first cycle tanked from zero fertilization. <BR/><BR/>I have to think that one reason I've put so much stock in IF street cred is that even tho it sucks to be infertile, the blogosphere is full of some amazingly cool women who happen to have problems conceiving and or carrying a child to term. I dunno- maybe in my screwed up mind I was thinking if I have to go through hell to have a baby, maybe I'll somehow come out of this a more insightful, sensitive, brilliantly funny person. At least that's one way to look at it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-1119917738850006892005-06-28T01:15:00.000+01:002005-06-28T01:15:00.000+01:00I'm posting from home so I have to sign in as anon...I'm posting from home so I have to sign in as anonymous. I understand completely what you mean. I felt, well, left out by not even getting to the IVF stage. <BR/><BR/>Glad to oblige on the slit remark. I can't wait to tell my friend, Kathy, who introduced me to that oh so lovely term.<BR/><BR/>How do you know that the search for those words led someone to your sight??<BR/><BR/>JulieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-1119914226107045092005-06-28T00:17:00.000+01:002005-06-28T00:17:00.000+01:00I feel the same way. I've been through some shit,...I feel the same way. I've been through some shit, but not IVF...yet. Hopefully I'll be ready for IUI #5 in the fall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-1119913022099883902005-06-27T23:57:00.000+01:002005-06-27T23:57:00.000+01:00I think it makes complete sense that you were a bi...I think it makes complete sense that you were a bit disappointed. I mean, you started preparing yourself mentally for this new path and then BAM, nope, turn around and go back.<BR/><BR/>I hope Dr. WHYBAML's plan with the met will be the secret formula that gets the IUI to work for you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-1119910203695772402005-06-27T23:10:00.000+01:002005-06-27T23:10:00.000+01:00I do so know exactly what you mean... I remember t...I do so know exactly what you mean... I remember the huge wave of relief I felt when my RE suggested we proceed straight to IVF after my surgery. A big part of it was just wanting to get on with it... bring on the big guns... you know... let's not fart around with darts and sling-shots. BUT... there was also the part of me that felt I needed to earn my stripes... to validate all my angst and fears... to PROVE that I really have fertility issues and that I'm not just some big-ass whiner who's too impatient to just wait and get pregnant like 'normal folk'.<BR/> <BR/>Now how weird is that??? I dunno where that comes from... but it IS pretty fucked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com