A friend of mine, who shall remain nameless, works for the US Air Force and likes to read my blog at work. When she called to thank us for her Christmas package the other day, she informed me that now I have something in common with my favorite book, “Catcher In The Rye.”
I’ve been banned. [...]
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“Here’s a couple of anecdotes for your book,” Dr. Reya said. “I won’t tell you names or anything, but there was this one time a guy elected to do his sample in my office and during the middle of it, the window washers came right down the side of the building and stopped in front [...]
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Constance and I took a winter vacation, and I forgot to tell you. More accurately, I forgot to tell you once I decided I needed a real vacation. No computers, no blogging and no writing about infertility. It was nothing overly exciting, we just stayed at home, saw 6 movies and ate a lot. After [...]
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I”m not sure why it happens every time we’re within sniffing distance of either set of our parents, but with my parents in town for a holiday visit over the weekend it was all just a little bit of history repeating. Constance got her period.
IUI #1 failed, so now we move onward and hopefully upward. [...]
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It won’t be long now until we find out if IUI #1 was successful. Dr. Reya told us to take a pregnancy test on the 19th, one day after my birthday, if Constance’s period hasn’t arrived by that point.
If her period does arrive, however, I’m back in for more testing. A lot more testing. That [...]
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Do-overs are essential in life, and what you do with a second chance means as much as how you squandered your first. I have long held out hope that singer Erykah Badu will rethink her dreadful naming decision and change her son’s moniker from Seven to YabbaDab Badu. Today I hope Mike Huckabee will choose [...]
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Our Christmas tree suffered an ill-lit death on Sunday afternoon following 5 jolly years of yuletide glow. It lit our brick and ivy apartment in Minneapolis, our Spanish style bungalow in Los Angeles and our classic Chicago two flat. Due to the failing circuitry of our pre-lit beauty, however, it will celebrate nothing but the [...]
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Today I signed and returned my first ever publishing contract. My book, surrounding the events hereto described in lurid, graphic detail in this blog, will be released in October 2008. It will not be written in a blog-like format - it will be written like a work of fiction. Only it will be true. Totally [...]
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