Okay - maybe that’s a little extreme. I just didn’t get any news I really wanted to hear. A couple of weeks ago, I met with a new PCOS doctor in Philly, hoping to get a better answer than “the most dangerous thing you can do to a baby is be as fat as you [...]
For the past few weeks, I’ve been following a new routine at bedtime: I shut down my computer, take my medications, and then hop into bed with an eye mask and headphones. No, this process isn’t to help me tune out the sound of Ben’s snoring (although it does help). Thanks to the wonderful people at [...]
A couple of weeks ago, we got a letter from Ben’s insurance, saying they’ve approved the pre-authorization request for the genetic testing to find out if he’s a carrier for LGMD. The prescription for the blood work showed up about a week later. At that point, it hit me that this is really happening. We’re [...]
This week is National Infertility Awareness week. I’ve wanted to pretend that I didn’t notice. (Which is sort of amusing, considering the theme for this year is “Don’t Ignore Infertility.) I read the heartbreaking stories, the hopeful stories, and the in-between. Most of the time, instead of offering words of encouragement, I closed my eyes [...]
Since getting the great news from the neuromuscular clinical trial, Ben and I are waiting for our regular genetic/fertility counselor to do some “homework” on carrier tests and seeing if she can get Ben’s insurance to cover the costs of the test. While they should only have to locate one gene instead of doing an [...]
Helen is proof of how awesome social media really is. After coming across a post of mine on StumbleUpon, we started chatting on the blog’s Facebook page. In fact, this entire awareness event came to fruition from that conversation. Helen Bradfield is a special education teacher and a transition specialist in New Jersey. In addition [...]
“No one else needs to know.” This is what my mother-in-law said to me when I confessed my anxiety towards telling the rest of our family, especially the more conservative ones, about the process we’re taking to try to get pregnant. Because last week I got a phone call with the preliminary results from my [...]
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