So we had (yet another) person come to my lovely home message board, Trouble Trying to Conceive (3T) talking about how they've been trying for "four months!!"And I wrote the following response. Please note that since I have not figured out the simplest of copy and paste with e-blogger, I am re typing this and might add a little from original.
Four Months of trying? Hmmm, for me that was back in November of 2009!
Talk to me when you've been trying for over two years. When you've seen friends & co workers have not one baby, but are ready to pop out their second little one. Talk to me when you are a whole year past "natural" remedies such as herbal teas, POM juice, pineapple cores, and the like.
Talk to me after you've had several doctors and nurses put a dildo shaped camera thrust into your ute, had a tube of your husband's sperm inserted past your cervix, or had your ovaries get an extra workout from hormones meds & shots in your stomach.
Talk to me after you've spent a year explaining to people that infertility doesn't mean you are "broken" when family or friends who mean well are telling you to seek adoption or having someone else carry a child for you.
Talk to me after you've had to save pennies here and there to afford your out of pocket infertility treatments, since most insurance companies feels making a family is a "want" and not medically needed. (Yet somehow giving a senior aged man an erection is?!)
Talk to me when you've had to put your treatments on hold due to financial reasons, miscarry, or have cysts that can cause you bodily harm.
Talk to me after you've gone through all of that, and then continue to see negative pregnancy tests for the 15th, 25th, or for me in a few days - the 32nd cycle in a row.
Talk to me then. Because until then, if you think we're all just a little nuts? Well I don't give a rats ass! And no, I don't need to take a deep breath and relax. Because you just gave me a therapeutic outlet to rant to all the people in the world who are like you, and think that four months of trying to get pregnant without results is "having trouble". Honey, you don't know what trouble is yet. But if God forbid, you have to join our little group some day, talk to me then. Because I would be pleased to be a sounding board for your rants, a shoulder to cry on in your down times, a cheer leader for when you're going through treatment, a happy supporter when you find success & get pregnant and a sister in this world of IF hell. Until then, go away!
**I added that last part in bold just now because it seems to be a nicer ending for anyone in the future I may need to repost this too. Sadly, I have a feeling I might refer to this at least once a month. And a quick shout out to The West Wing, for teaching me a bit about good oratory (even though this is not a speech, repetition and comparing one that's not like another is still a great way to argue a point.) And anyone wanting to use this feel free....I only ask for credit for my type A personality because I'm proud of this one.
AMEN!
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