Friday, January 15, 2010

Fact Sheets

Before I jump into this topic, let me just say that my last post bordered on the crazy-must have a baby-stereotypical infertile lady-edge that I so hate and I realize that.  Anyway......

Doing some research and have found plenty of disheartening and disturbing information about fertility testing and treatments on the American Society of Reproducive Medicine's webpage.  Interested?  Look here - Fact Sheets

Did you know that the ovary-stimulating medicine given to a woman who is participating in fertility treatments can sometimes cause her ovary to twist on itself, cutting off its own blood supply, thus requiring surgery to untwist it or remove it?  Jesus......

I want to pretend that IVF is gonna be cool and interesting, like that elementary school science project where you create a papier mache volcano and then make it explode......but my uterus is not a papier mache volcano. 

Oh, blissful ignorance!

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