A Life Worth Living
The infertility is my “fault” and yet she’s the one who bears the brunt of it. She takes the meds, she tracks the schedule, she needs injections, she has the medical procedures.
As I sit in our Fertility clinic in Vancouver on Easter Sunday morning (2024), I’m a little scared and a little excited. At this point we’ve done 9 days of injections.
We wanted to keep our expectations in check, and eventually it resulted in a negative test. Or 3.
Our first big procedure. It was an interesting observation to realize that everyone in the waiting room were all there for the same reason.
We took November and December off from trying or moving forward which meant that we could take time to be with family and friends over the holiday season
Describing the feelings and process of finding a sperm donor.
When I watched Barbie deal with the existential death anxiety that suddenly falls upon her, I understood it immediately.
This post is sort of just a “stuff that happened” type of post to further our timeline.
Previous: Infertility Part 14: Money Stress As I wrote in Infertility #12: Urologist, I had already seen a regular urologist for an initial referral, a physical exam, and then a test called a Karyotype. With the Karyotype, I had my genetics tested to see if I was possibly born with an additional chromosome or if…
I wrote this earlier this year over a couple days surrounding my wife’s grandmother’s memorial service. I hope she knew just how much she and her family means to me.
Growing Inside, Shrinking Outside 