Dry brushing, Reiki, and Hunyuan: Get Pregnant in REALLY Untraditional Ways
After my POA diagnosis, I thought I did immaculate research into alternative therapies to improve fertility. With Western Medicine being a giant #FAIL for women like me, Eastern Medicine and...
View ArticleSecondary Infertility is Just as Painful (I Feel Sure)
In the first year of my sub-fertility struggle, I saw often how women like myself – facing fertility issues while trying to conceive their first baby – react very angrily at the pain expressed by women...
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Looking for Sensitivity on a Day for Fools
You cannot look to your fellow man if you want sensitivity to your struggle. For that matter, you cannot look to your fellow woman necessarily either. I know where you can turn if you need...
View ArticleFour Months to Easter
Sunday was Easter (hello, Captain Obvious). Our babies, dressed in slobber-covered, button-down shirts and ruffly, pastel dresses were missing. The Easter dinner prepared throughout Saturday didn’t...
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I Resent What Other “Infertiles” Say WAY More than “Fertiles”
Seriously? I promise, I have not been dwelling, but last Monday I broke my silence. Unfortunately, my first post ended up being the timely reaction to Sharon Osbourne’s April Fool’s Day joke and how...
View Article#InfertilityAwareness. Um. How about Why? How about #HoardersAwareness?
This is Infertility Awareness Week. I kid you not, someone made this a “week”. I have a serious issue with dedicating a week to making everyone I know unnecessarily miserable (despite doing it...
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I Don’t Want to Be Here. Is Waiting to Escape #IF Honesty or Betrayal?
I had to laugh. I was on the Pinterest page for RESOLVE (an organization focused on infertility) and saw a sign saying: “Infertility: Keep Talking About It” Honestly, it read like the pun to a bad...
View ArticleIf I Sound Like a Bitch, This Is What I Mean: #IF #Support #Love
For anyone feeling like I am not being supportive of women in our situation… For anyone feeling like I said at some point we should not be allowed to feel pain… For anyone feeling like I said we should...
View ArticleFertility Issues Are Not the Same as Cancer, Even If It Feels Like It.
I know a handful of readers have me pegged as some kind of heartless biatch. Because I fall on the side of not believing IVF should be covered by insurance plans, and not feeling like lashing out...
View ArticleI Believe. I Believe God Has Me on an Extraordinary Journey, and I’m Not...
Fairly silent this past week (unlike me), I have been busy surfing the chaos in my head. Google searches such as “POF and Clomid” to see if I have an avenue I have yet to explore. Rides of jealousy and...
View ArticleWhy, Once Again, I Ditched the DHEA #fertility #ttc
When you live in the swirling vortex of entropy that is fertility forums and desperate women shoveling everything they can in their bodies to have a baby, you learn quickly about DHEA and its function...
View ArticleDitching the Horrible Titles, Labels, and Self-Defeating Attitude. Goodbye...
Ugh. I got so much flack for not supporting the cryfest that is “National Infertility Awareness Week”. Now, I give a big middle finger to terms like “infertile” and “#if” (it’s a Twitter thing), too....
View ArticleTo the “Whiny”, the “Negative”, the “Infertile” and the “Judgmental”
In my emotional feng shui attack of getting rid of the word “infertile” in my life, I may have come close to throwing out the baby with the bath water (horrible cliche intended). This blog, like a...
View ArticleFalse Evidence Appearing Real. Girl, It’s Time to Man Up to the Anger Inside...
fertility fear anger anger and fear are one in the same it’s no wonder I’ve been so angry for so much of my life. Friday, Julia Indichova posted on her Fertile Heart website an article about the...
View ArticleA Problem So Much Bigger Than Us
This article on fish on Prozac – yes, aquatic life bombarded with the effects of our medical waste. The results were decreased fertility, and increased violence and anxiety. Now, comprehend how that...
View ArticleWhat Not to Say to Your SINGLE Friends
If you think you are alone in idiotic advice from well-intentioned friends, church members, and even strangers, think again. I have on several occasions called us “fertility challenged” women to...
View ArticleIn Saying Goodbye…
“Opportunities like this give us the chance to push the pause button in life.” The minister of Saturday’s memorial service spoke these words, and it was true. Somehow, sitting in a room full of people...
View ArticleHigh FSH SUCCESS Stories; Have Hope!
Without even trying, I have found several high FSH success stories that I needed to share. Some are natural success stories, some with assisted reproductive technology or hormones, and some have even...
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Do We Really Deserve Happiness?
Happiness has become our God. Our addiction. Like a heroin addict reaching for a dirty needle to get a fix, everything from our music, to our relationships, to our laundry detergent is supposed to...
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#IF ONLY.
IF. I-F. If. If only… IF ONLY I believed. If only I believed in my art enough to pursue it until I was ravaged by the creative force as much as I have let depression ravage me. IF ONLY I believed in...
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