Infertililty treatment: How long should you persevere?
(wz) Years of infertililty treatment took their toll on Caroline Gallup’s health and marriage. But the hardest part was knowing when to give up.
I feel ashamed. I love spending time with our friends’ adorable children, but today I can’t cope with their visit. I’ve felt the panic rising since yesterday, but have been trying to ignore it. I’ve been running and re-running scenarios in my head: I could start cooking when they arrive, so that I’m in the kitchen for the most part, and then occupied with eating and clearing away. Even better, I could send parents, children and my husband, Bruce, out walking with our dogs, so that I have space to deal with how I’m feeling.
Since making the decision to stop our fertility treatment and accept the unsuccessful outcome, being with kids is generally OK, but without warning my distress at not being able to have Bruce’s child jumps up and bites me on the behind. I’m having a wobble, and I don’t know what to do. more…
From: »The Independent« (UK)