Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Matt
Our first major social event of the pregnancy era was the wedding of my lifelong friend. Mary Fons got married, and as it turned out our ill-timed mall trip last weekend in preparation for the big day was only the precursor to a much more frustrating and ill-timed bout of those same dastardly retail emotions.
Only [...]
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Posted on August 11th, 2008 by Matt
I have more than a sneaking suspicion there are two babies currently growing inside of my baby mama. Above all, Constance already has begun a physical transformation. A hair shy of five weeks and she’s got a noticeable, small bump, plus she has felt “it doing stuff” on both sides of her uterus. Google pictures [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Matt
Some things we believe simply because we never took the time to unearth the truth. Others we believe because we never felt compelled to question the inexplicable left turn our minds took the first time we were presented with an idea.
Most of the inaccurate things I believe, however, are a due to the fact [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Matt
Of the 25 eggs Constance produced during her hyperstimulated state, the doctors were able to remove 24 of them. For those of you that don’t know much about IVF, that’s a lot of eggs - 96% to be exact. Having so many benefits us in several ways, most importantly, it increases the likelihood that we’ll [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Matt
When I woke up for our IVF appointment this morning I was more chipper than anyone has the right being before 7 AM. It wasn’t the blazing sun dashing through the slits in the blinds, casting horizontal waves that rolled across my face as I opened my eyes. It wasn’t the faint-yet-delicious remnants of graham [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Matt
Over the last three days, after a relaxing staycation to Wimbledon, I have been overwhelmed to the point of exhaustion. I was in day-long meetings Monday-Wednesday to chart the course for my company’s next six months, which left me with my real work, prepping the syndicated health-and-wellness package I manage, to be done during the [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Matt
Constance and I hit the town on a Tuesday night to take in one of her favorite bands, The Swell Season, (it’s the people from the movie, Once) at the historic Chicago Theatre for the 2nd of 3 sold-out shows. If you haven’t seen the movie and you have yet to buy the soundtrack, do [...]
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Posted on June 5th, 2008 by Matt
Lying is not an act in which I like to engage unless you consider it a lie to say you’re on your way out the door when you’re not just to escape a phone conversation. If you do, then that is the one lie in my arsenal I truly cherish. But there is a singular [...]
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Posted on May 13th, 2008 by Matt
I wear my heart on my sleeve, usually alongside a “trophy wife” button Constance gave me for my birthday three years ago. I’m also not the kind of guy to mix emotions or messages – if I like you my whole world knows of said adoration. Yesterday I had lunch with my intern’s academic adviser [...]
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Posted on April 18th, 2008 by Matt
“I had a patient ask me the other day, ‘Why aren’t I pregnant?’” Dr. Reya said, readying the ultrasound machine once again for a peek at the healthy lining and 4 egg starts we’re working with this month. “I told her, ‘Because you’re not a teenager in the back of a Chevy smoking crack.’ [...]
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