Two Brave Calls

Hello bleeps!

For those of you visiting from ICLW – welcome! Not really much to say, except we have been battling infertility for about five years now. Have done 2 IUIs and planning a third one. I love my hubby dearly and we also have two love dogs. I spend my time mostly at work (I am a grade one teacher) and also blog and work on my website (healwithheather.com). Anyway, onto today’s topic.

Communication. We all need it. We need to connect.

But it seems that lately, I’ve had problems with it.

Our landline has not been working for about four months now. Oh, they come around and fix it and it works briefly, and then it goes again. Also the past few days we have been having problems with the internet. You get a few seconds of connectivity and then it goes again. I just need to look at my Skype button to know if I am online or not. And mostly: it’s not.

Fortunately my cell phone is working, although there are limits to what you can do with a blackberry (anybody know how to activate JavaScript on a blackberry so I can comment on people’s blogs?!)

In any case, last Monday, the last day of my holiday, I sat there next to my phone and a list of fertility clinics, trying to get up the guts to make that call. My gynae has been great but now we have to bring in some more resources. This has been top of my list to do for the holidays, but the resistance to actually do it is there. I think it is a general nervousness about how much money is going to be involved.

In the end I decided on three: to make 3 appointments and decide later. I have heard good things about all. One of them, which is closer to my work, did not pan out – I have heard the receptionists are rude, but when I asked prices, the girl in the accounts they transferred me to someone who did not even know what an IUI was. Oh well.  So I now have two appointments on the same day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Before you suggest I go to both – at over R1000 an appointment, I am just not going to do that. I already have to pay over R3000 to get a crown done on my tooth next week (to get to dollars divide by seven). So I still need to decide between two.

My other news has to do with an old issue that has come up again. For those of you that have been following my blog since last year, you’ll remember when my maid (V) offered me her grandchild. You can read that post here, and how I handled it here. The bottom line was; the 14 year old wasn’t sure if she really wanted to give the kid away in the end, and I wasn’t sure if I was prepared to take it. But it was really tough.

Anyway, last week Monday, this baby (must be about 8 months by now), falls and hurts himself. The mother, a child herself, would rather be playing in the streets than taking care of the kid. V came in on Tuesday and told me about it. By Thursday, when she came again, the kid had still not been seen to.

I had some stuff to do and came back at about lunch time. She actually suggested that I phone her daughter. With considerable bravery, I picked up my phone. I told her that unless she takes that kid to a hospital immediately, we will send social workers in to take the kid away, and is that what she wants? Even after I put the phone down, I wasn’t sure if she was listening or not. But I had done what I could.

This week V tells me that her daughter actually listened to me! The kid had a dislocated wrist! He has a bandage/ caste now, so should be ok. However, they have decided that enough is enough and she is being packed off to V’s husband’s family in Mozambique for the next two months. Maybe to knock some sense into her, I hope.

Despite everything that’s happened, I am still following what happens with this kid with a great deal of interest and concern.  I think I will always feel connected to it, because it once almost was mine. Well, will see what happens in June when she comes back.

Oh well enough about all that serious stuff. Hope you all are enjoying your Easter. Yesterday we went to see Water for Elephants which I really enjoyed. I also saw this most perfect purple dress which I want to wear for the wedding we are going down for next weekend (B’s niece). Last year this time we went for her 21^st, now she is getting married. She will undoubtedly have babies before we do! But in any event I plan on having a great time.

Oh and I have to share this funny moment. I’m not sure when I will be able to post this because my internet keeps drifting in and out. But when I cooked supper I put chilies in my chicken noodle soup (Cindy Bailey’s recipe) because Dr P says that I need to be “warmed up” so that the “oven” is at the “right temperature”. Not only do I manage to get chilies in my eye (very painful!) but it is so hot in my mouth I run to the fridge to put cold dairy milk (a fertility no-no) down my throat! Oh the things we do. I think I have had it with chilies.

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