Hello bleeps!
I’m still here! Working hard, but still functioning! I am so happy to be on a long weekend midterm break. Today we went to a book sale where they sold books by the kilogram. A nice one I am reading right now is all about stories of different women and how they conceived (“Trying to Conceive”). I even got one on adoption (well, how to explain to your child that he/she is adopted).
In any case, I was just grabbing anything, even one on IVF, because you never know… I might need it…
Well, all of this made me realise…
You know you’ve been infertile for too long when…
– Your books represent a library of infertility, and you now have enough knowledge on the subject to write a book.
– Your medical aid funds are depleted by April (well that’s what happened last year, between the homeopath and the acupuncturist).
– Your dogs become your children. You start talking about them as if they are people. You start calling them “baby”.
– All your friends have children/ are pregnant except you.
– And every time you open a magazine there’s a new celebrity showing off her “baby bump” as if it were the latest handbag.
– People have stopped asking you when you are going to have children.
– You start looking at kids on the street and wonder idly if you can grab one and make a quick getaway.
– You think you will physically hurl if another person tells you to “just relax” or take a vacation.
Well that’s all from me for today! Enjoy your weekend.
Great list Heather–all so true.
PS-Thanks for your comment yesterday.
Thanks, Elphaba!
You know its been long when……
1. Your friend tells you her gynea gave her this, that and the other advice and you know its all rubbish.
2. You do a clean out of your cosmetics and find left over cyclogest, gestone and provera.
3.You can confidently explain what a luteal phase is to someone who has just started trying.
4. You are utterly flabbergasted when you hear of woman who only get two scans their entire pregnancy. I mean we get more than that in an IVF……..ha ha.
Ya, its a different world.
You are brilliant! thanks for adding them!
Books by the kilogram, interesting. I love browsing in book stores and find myself more drawn to these subjects as well. Having information about it all helps as well as reading other stories.
Yup, most of these apply to me! Especially the one about the dogs. Just a question – when you refer to medical aid – is that the savings account? I have started acupuncture and I am stressing about how to pay for it. Can you claim from your account? I am on Discovery.
I did last year – the acupuncturist was also a physiotherapist, so it wasn’t a problem, used physio slips. the new one I want to go to is also a homeopath. I am also a discovery.
Love your list. Especially the one “just relax”.
A few years back while living in Nottingham England, a local book store was going out of business. They sold books by the bag. You got a bag and you could put as many books in the bag as possible. (had to be in the bag and not sticking out unless book was larger than the bag). Went back so many times over a 3 day period. Could only carry 2 bags at a time, due to the weight of each. Can not recall how much each bag was, but when I finally got all the books home (on the bus), I ended up with 380 new books to read and spent something
Hi John, sounds like a wonderful sale. I would totally do the same. I also like your site. My mom is a Kindle addict.