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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Days before our transfer, Constance and I decided to embrace the nerdy thread that runs through both of our personalities and celebrate the 16 embryos that we, along with a few able scientists, created.
“Let’s do 16 fun things today,” she said. “One thing for each embryo.”
“OK,” I said, fumbling through my pocket for the [...]

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“You have two really beautiful embryos to work with today,” said the doctor as he dropped his first finger down against the top of his thumb, pushing his final three digits into the air to create the kind of “A-OK” hand signal a man pushing seventy flashes when things are unexpectedly primo. “Now once your [...]

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I’ve been quarantined in Des Plaines, Illinois all day judging a newspaper contest. My eyes are bleary and the coffee is terrible. But I would be remiss if I didn’t let you know that we have 16 fertilized eggs and our transfer will be on day 5, Sunday. Constance has been pumping the Gatorade and [...]

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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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Dad bought a bounty of pens for his heating-and-cooling business back in 1998, the year he stopped working for someone other than himself. The shell of each red and black click-y pen features an escaped convict outfitted in stripes and the cheeky-yet-ironic phrase, “This pen was stolen from Miller Heating & Cooling.” Drawers, pockets, bags, [...]

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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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Per usual, Constance and I got a bit of a late start to our 7AM appointment in River North. Even with no hair to style and even following my questionable decision to forgo showering for the day, we still arrived five minutes late. Not that it mattered. There was nobody there, and shortly after filling [...]

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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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