A Dixie Dialog
No country music fan me, but darn it, those Dixie Chicks are likable. For so many reasons, but here’s the latest: Sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison both conceived children via IVF (in vitro fertilization) and they are ready to talk and sing and talk about it. A recent article in Conceive Online lays it all out. In this passage, Emily talks about the logistics of maintaining the routine of daily shots using medicine that has to be refrigerated, while in the midst of a frantic travel schedule:
Emily went first, and her in vitro cycles occurred during one of the group’s national tours. “I’m by nature a very modest person,” says Emily, “but by the end of that tour, every-one had seen me naked. You’ll do anything when you’re wanting to have a baby. I can laugh about it now, but I called that the gynecological tour across the United States.”
Emily’s admission reminds me of New Years Eve, two years ago. We were in Connecticut, celebrating with friends. While the boys were still participating in the festivities (namely, one of the rowdiest games of musical chairs I have ever seen), I left the bar and returned to the hotel room with the female half of our favorite couple to help her administer the first of her shots. I can’t even recall if it was Lupron or the dreaded PIO or some other concoction. All I know is that she popped open her case and got the needles out and I had to go lay down. I was useless.
Funny how it all seems so familiar now.
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