GO made a resolution that we wouldn’t do anything this year and for the first few weeks he stuck with it.
Then I think he saw how only working was beginning to see me unravel and he has started to organise outings.
I am now use to him reading things he has found on Eventbrite and just nodding along. He’ll book it regardless.
Hello Christmas model train exhibition.
So when he mentioned the Manchester infertility show, I mumbled something along the lines of let’s go it could be useful. Then promptly forgot all about it. So when he dropped it into a conversation recently I was a bit taken aback.
I love a good convention (Curve, Cake, Grand Designs), I love going and finding new and exciting things, meeting experts and I love the freebies.
So we turned up and settled in, it was a small show. The smallest I’ve been to. While it had some local clinics specialising in IVF, some alternative therapies (the acupuncturist was very scary, I’ll get I touch soon) it was mainly
made up of foreign IVF clinics and sperm banks. Within ten minutes I had signed up for an inferiority magazine, got a few useful contacts and had tried to steal the sperm.
That, rather than fact finding, became my mission for the morning. Try to get a sperm!
There were cardboard ones, furry ones, flashing ones, stressball sperm, sperm key rings, sperm pens. You name it, it had sperm on it and I wanted one. In the end I got half a dozen, happy with my haul. I suggested moving on.
Did I learn anything? Not really I have done my own existences research so I knew what the answers were.
Did I enjoy it? Again, no, infertility is sad. There is no getting away from it, your body isn’t doing what it should and it makes you sad and angry. This is what we saw on faces around the convention. I was quite chirpy but I have made my peace with my lot.
Although my favourite part was when the California Sperm Bank Guy (flashing sperm pen, see below) looked at me looked at GO and said; “we can give you you the sperm of a six foot, blonde, engineer if you want!” I laughed took GO by the hand and said “thanks I’m good with what I got!” Brilliant
Would I go again? Nope, to much of a focus on IVF and not about other ways around infertility. OvuSense anyone?
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