I keep playing this particular scene from Hamilton over and over in my head. It’s in “Stay Alive (Reprise)”. [Philip] I did exactly as you said, Pa I held my head up high [Hamilton] I know, I know. Shh I know, I know, shh I know you did everything just right. The brutal reality of infertility is that you can do exactly as you are told, do everything just right – and still not succeed. There is no magic wand that you can wave, and no amount of positive energy or hope can bring you the outcome that you desire....
I’m sorry for the delay in this post, things have been a little insane! So, I heard from the clinic on Sunday where they gave us our Day 6 Blastocyst report. Remember that we still had 5 in play, as of the day of my embryo transfer (which was Day 3). Of the five embryos, two did not make it to the blastocyst stage. One arrested in its development and thus was not viable to be frozen. The other was of low quality (there was no center mass of cells to indicate that it was a healthy blastocyst). So we...
On the ride home tonight, Dean received a call on his cell phone from a Richmond, VA number. Normally, we would not answer a call from an unknown number, but in this case he figured he would answer it in the off chance it was them. It was! There are still a few results pending for some of the more rare diseases (ranging in odds of 1:30,000 and 1: 1,000,000) but what we know so far is – we are not carriers for any of the major diseases. HOWEVER. We both did test positive for a disorder called hemochromatosis. If you’re thinking that this...
