Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you feel like a can of mixed nuts.

Let me just start by saying, I am kinda nuts, but also, not as 'nuts' as I need to be sometimes.  If I were more nuts in someways, I think I'd feel better, not so bottled up.

Our dear friends, who I wrote about here, are pregnant. After about 2 months of trying, sperm met egg, egg invited sperm in, cell division party progressed, and then it went on a trip down the tubes and implanted. For you infertiles out there, this is how it works for other people. No sono, no shots, no surgery, no speculum with a full bladder, no catheter in your cervix.  Go figure.  The process actually works for some people.

As you can imagine my reaction to this news was pretty mixed. In one part of myself I am so happy for them; so happy that they are not in this hell of infertility. And in another part of myself, I am so envious that it is scary. I think that envy, that kind of jealousy that has an ugly edge to it, is one of the hardest emotions for me to deal with. It is sort of a cliché that infertiles are bitter and envious, and say awful destructive things about people who get pregnant. But not me.  I've indulged in the odd bitter outpouring of why me, but to really feel the ugly envy towards people I love, who have achieved something I wanted so badly for myself, and who will be such wonderful parents, and have been such wonderful friends to us, was pretty much intolerable. Of course, being the pillar of mental health that I am, instead of just feeling envious I attacked myself, my eggs, my effort, my fitness to be a mother and on and on. My husband, who is the soul of patience (even when he shouldn't be), finally snapped and couldn't take it any more.  He was tired of this implosion that happens every time someone gets pregnant instead of me, and get the f&*k over it. He did retract that last part.  Ugh. 

Again, my wonderful therapist gave words to some of my crazy thoughts, and it was such a huge relief to just admit these ugly feelings, and not take that energy and smack myself around with it.  To say I'm over beating myself up about infertility, goes too far, but at least I have something else to wrap my head around.

We didn't even try this month. both of us were emotionally a bit fragile after the maelstrom of the week, and then Sat am both of us suffered a sacroiliac joint pain extravaganza--husband can't sit, and certainly can't do the baby lambada.  So for the first time in 2 years, there is truly no chance I'm gonna get pregnant. I feel mixed about this as well. On one hand, to not even try feels very sad, but on the other, it is a relief. I know my period will come either on thanksgiving or the day after, and the IVF extravaganza will begin. 

In general, I'm working a lot more than I have been for the last year and a half, so my posting is suffering. But mostly, I've  been trying to live the not infertile part of my life a little more fully lately, and that is important too. I hope you'll stick around, even if the posts are a little sparse for a while. Remember, December is IVF #3, so posting of mundane but important details will resume at that time.

Comments

[LisaJane]

I'll be here...in the cheering section. :)

[Les Make Babies]

Finally!! I found your blog!

You have been so wonderful and supportive with your comments on my blog - I have been searching for you on the blogosphere for weeks! FINALLY I've found you and can return the support!