The Sh*tty Day thread

[jellydonut25]

[jellydonut25]

[MouthForWar]

[king_ghidorah]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[MekaGojira3k]

[MouthForWar]

[metal_bryan]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[Reaper G]

That's awful, Alex. My condolences.

[jellydonut25]

Well, I have a normal sperm count, my wife is fertile (clean tubes, "good-looking" uterus, normally dilating cervix, three times as many eggs as average in women)...BUT (there's always a but, isn't there)

the follicles at the end of her fallopian tubes don't stimulate her ovaries to mature the eggs and produce them.

we basically have two options:
1 - injectibles. they give her drugs that will force some eggs to develop and produce, then there's a 20-25% chance of getting pregnant. It's cheaper (we could afford to do it right now), but the odds of pregnancy are lower, the odds of multiples are higher, and with her high egg count there's a chance she'd produce so many that the doctor would essentially forbid us from having sex in fear of multiples on the order of 5 or more.
2 - in-vitro. again, still given drugs to produce eggs, but now they don't care about controlling how many, they want as many as they can get. then i make a donation, then there's a 70% chance of pregnancy. Lower chance of multiples (on the order of 1-3%). BUT it's expensive. Like "get night jobs to save up for it" expensive.

i think the biggest reason i'm disappointed is that i kinda wanted the whole experience...taking pregnancy tests, being surprised that "that time was THE time", the whole shebang. Not gonna get it.

[king_ghidorah]

[KaijuZoo]

[king_ghidorah]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

I think my sinus infection is turning into bronchitis plus there's something that's been bugging me for a couple of weeks now that I really don't want to get into details about but it's causing my mind to spin.

[jellydonut25]

sat down over the weekend and did some budgeting stuff and my spending is out of control.

i'm honestly a little bit ashamed of how much money i spent last year...i can think of ONE person i could tell the amount to who wouldn't be SHOCKED (other than my wife, who obviously is involved in the budget as well) just at the sheer dollar amount. forget that we can (kind of) afford it, it's absurd. (my parents, for example, would be utterly flabbergasted. i'm confident i spent more money than their gross pay combined for a year)

thank god there are some built-in excuses like: we bought a house, and I had major surgery.

boo to the fact that i may end up spending MORE this year if we end up doing in-vitro.

[MouthForWar]

Doing expensive stuff sucks.

[jellydonut25]

[jellydonut25]

[metal_bryan]

[canofhumdingers]

[metal_bryan]

[jellydonut25]

[The Real McCoy]