I love New Year's Eve. It's such a precarious, if invented demarcation between the old and the new, the past and the future, a sliver of the present in transition. For many, it's the tabula rasa, the turn of the wheel, a moment of both ending and beginning. How fitting that … Read More »
Challenge Accepted: A Glucose Challenge Rage Comic Tale
Turns out I've got a history of gestational diabetes in my family. So naturally, this means a baseline glucose challenge test WAY earlier than most people. "Piece of cake," I thought, naively - and pardon the pun. So a few weeks ago, I had these grand plans of showing up to … Read More »
The Infertility Voice: 2012’s Greatest Hits
What a year, folks! It's hard to believe that we're ready to kiss 2012 goodbye and ring in the new year in just a week. Even though it hasn't yet been a full year here at this website, it's been an incredible ten months here all the same, and I have each of you to thank for … Read More »
Caution: Bump Ahead
Since some of you are reading these posts in an RSS Reader, I've made the choice to only offer a 400-character teaser of each post in my RSS feed. Personally, truncated post summaries in RSS feeds drive me nuts. That said: I know that some of you reading may still be building … Read More »
Senseless and Silent.
I need to get these thoughts out of my head that have been swirling around since Friday afternoon and on to paper/screen. Friday morning, Larry and I drove down to New Jersey to attend his sister's college graduation. Shortly before 1pm, his iPhone dinged. He has a … Read More »
MIA (Again) Thanks to My Thyroid (Again)
For the record: hypothyroidism BLOWS. A ranty thyroid post ahead. And of course, my half-Japanese* self gets the fancy Hashimoto's variation, where my body slowly eats away at my thyroid, leaving an endocrinological nightmare in its wake. *Being half-Japanese has nothing to … Read More »
My Evolving Identity of Infertility
Growing up as a biracial half-Japanese, half-Caucasian girl with a Japanese first and last name and a "white" middle name, I have long struggled with the concept of identity. I was never Asian enough. I was never white enough. For a long time, I felt these two halves of … Read More »
Perfect Moment Monday: Wub, Wub, Wub.
I'm a week late for Lori's Perfect Moment Monday, but her list is still active and hey, it's a Monday, so I guess I'm still in the clear. I realize my post title sounds like I'm listening to dubsteb but it refers to something entirely different. Last Monday, Larry and I got to … Read More »
