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~ …trying to survive infertility, IVF and egg donation.

Hope is something you pee on

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21 Monday Jan 2013

Posted by mybrokenoven in Uncategorized

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defeated, diminished ovarian reserve, Infertility, sad

I’m worn out. Beaten down. Defeated and dejected.

Infertility sucks. All of it. Start to finish.

I have to take a break; from the planning, the pills, the stress, the research, the constant worrying. I want one day – just one day – where I don’t feel this overwhelming sense of loss.

I want to watch TV without crying at baby food commercials. I want to sleep through the night without having stress dreams. I want to stop eating kale. I want to enjoy sex with my husband again. I want a damn cup of coffee.

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12 Wednesday Dec 2012

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3/5 people saw no line on the test, so I pee’d on 3 more tests, all FRER’s. One line. If I was pregnant, I’m not anymore.

Leibster Award Nomination. Sweet!

03 Saturday Nov 2012

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Thank you IVFmale (http://ivfmale.wordpress.com/) for nominating me for a Leibster Award! I’m honored that you thought of me over here in my small corner of the world (I think of this more as a personal journal and so it’s sometimes shocking to think other people actually read it)! I had never heard of the Leibester Award so I looked it up – here is the best response I found http://sopphey.onimpression.com/2012/05/liebster-blog-award-origins.html

It is a wonderful way to get introduced to new blogs, so here I go – the rules are as follows:

  • Answer 11 questions posed by the nominator.
  • Nominate 11 blogs for the award.
  • Create 11 questions for those I nominate to answer.

My nominations are as follows (I know it’s not 11):

Charity Spring  http://charity-spring.org/

fun fit 5KpPlus http://yomicfit.wordpress.com/

A journey through IVF  http://ivfinf.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/i-i-agony-2/

A journey to and through IVF http://evelynnross.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/7-weeks-and-a-uti/

Maybe Baby? http://maybebabyivf.wordpress.com/

2 good eggs http://twogoodeggsblog.wordpress.com/

Waiting on a angel http://waitingonaangel.wordpress.com/

A little bit pregnant http://www.alittlepregnant.com/

The answer to my questions are:

  1. What inspired you to start your blog? Feeling alone during the infertility diagnoses and IVF
  2. Describe one feature you wish WordPress had that it doesn’t. ???
  3. What quality about yourself are you most proud of?  My perseverance
  4. Describe your fondest childhood memory. Playing at the beach with my sister and cousins, or hanging our with my best friend in high school (does that count as childhood)?
  5. Tell me about your first car. Ohhhh, it was a Hyundai hatchback that my parents bought from my grandpa.  I loved it more than words can express.
  6. Who inspires you and why? Too many people – my grandmother because of her patience and love; my father because of his enthusiasm; my husband because of his eternal optimism; my sister because of her fearlessness; my best friend because of her ability to laugh even in the worst circumstances; my mother – for every reason in the world.
  7. Tell me the most recent joke you’ve heard that was really funny.  Ummm.  Uhhh…  What do you call a stick that comes back? A boomerang!
  8. What do you want others to remember you by? I would like to be remembered for kindness.
  9. Which question above do you wish I hadn’t asked?  The joke one. I haven’t heard a funny joke in a long time!!
  10. What question didn’t I ask you wish I had?  Pets. Animals rock.
  11. Do you think I made up the last two questions because I ran out of questions? Yup!

Their questions are as follows:

  1. Why did you start your blog?
  2. Do you have any pets?
  3. What is the one thing (not person) you can’t live without?
  4. What is the last thing you do before you go to bed at night?
  5. What is your best trait?
  6. When was the last time you laughed, and what made you do it?
  7. What was your worst year of school and why?
  8. What was the last dream you had that you remember?
  9. What were you for Halloween (the last time you dressed up)?
  10. If you could live anywhere where would it be?
  11. Have you ever felt an earthquake?

50 shades of red

28 Sunday Oct 2012

Posted by mybrokenoven in Musings, Uncategorized

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family, Infertility, red hair, redhead

I have red hair. Very very red. New penny copper red. And for as long as I can remember people have been talking about it. When I was a little girl strangers would stop my mother in the grocery store to ask about it – “Did it run in our family? Did all of her children have red hair?”.  As a teenager women would stop me in the mall (much to my mortification) and ask to cut a piece off for color matching at the salon. In college boys would always make snide remarks – “Does the carpet match the drapes?” or “Are redheads as feisty as people say?”. As an adult the comments continue, albeit in a less offensive way. My hair is my defining characteristic.

My sisters hair is dark auburn, if you want to make her mad say it’s brown. My mother has red hair.  She’s the only one of her 4 siblings that has it – they all have dark brown hair. Her mother (my grandmother) had red hair and both of her sisters had brown hair. My great-grandmother was 1 of many, and she was the only one with red hair. You get the point. Since I can remember that’s the other thing people have always said to me – “You B.’s! Always a redheaded! Aren’t you excited to carry your family tradition forward?”. I was. Was being the operative word.

Very red

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