@stormageddon-darklordofall do you have a nickname that your friends call you? Because FFFC your username is so long that it’s messing up what my view looks like on mobile when you are the last to comment on something. It’s driving me nuts 😂
I might be a terrible person, but the litany of beloved media and entertainment figures we have lost this week brings up something that really irks me - referring to the death of an elderly person as "tragic." I'm sorry, it is sad, and we mourn them, but passing away well into yours 80s and 90s is not tragic. We should all live to be that old and maintain a semblance of physical and mental health. The 430k+ deaths lost to Covid is tragic. Both of my grandmothers passing away in their 40s and 50s, never seeing their children marry or meeting their grandchildren, or a child/teenager dying, that is tragic.
@fifilala516 I don't think that makes you a terrible person. I agree with your thinking. Dying in a horrible manner or at a young age is tragic. Dying when you're 80/90 due to natural causes of old age is like you said - sad, but not tragic. It's an interesting conversation over proper use of words or how something should be described. I've read that there's some debate over whether saying someone is battling/fighting/beat cancer is... not necessarily insensitive, but just terminology that people want to move away from. I don't remember the reasoning but it made sense when I was reading about it.
*TW* History
TTC #1 since 7.2017 Dx: low morph (1%), ANA positive, low decidualization score, high TSH and testosterone, histone antibodies
IUI #1-3| all BFN IVF #1 | 6.11.19 | 24R, 17M, 15F, 6B, PGT-A tested - 5 normal, 3 girls & 2 boys FET #1 | 9.10.19 | BFN "I know you, but we've never met. I'm with you, but I don't know your name" RPL, Receptiva, & ERA testing | all normal/negative, recommended going on gluten and dairy free diet for next FET FET #2 | 3.31.20 | Opted to cancelled due to pandemic, continued diet and tried naturally over the summer 2nd Opinion with another RE | 8.20.20 | Not immune to measles (received 1 dose); SA results similar to 2 years ago; decided to move forward with FET #2 redo at start of next cycle Surprise natural BFP! | 9.22.20 | MC 10.23.20 at 8 weeks TTCAL naturally | starting 11.22.20 Initial consultation with Reproductive Immunologist | 9.14.21 Decidualization score biopsy | 10.1.21 | abnormal - low score of 1; endometrial scratch recommended and progesterone supplementation Saline sono | 10.15.21 | normal Bloodwork | 10.21.21 | high TSH, high testosterone, positive for anti-nuclear antibodies and histone antibodies, high protein S, multiple genetic mutations BFP! | 11.3.21 | EDD 7.14.22 | biopsy provided same effect as endometrial scratch; added supplemental progesterone and estrogen, prednisone, levothyroxine, and MTX Support to maintain pregnancy DS born 7.19.22 after induction
TTC #2 begins 6.2023 Consultation with RI | 6.6.23 Saline sono, endometritis biopsy, skin & eye check | all normal Labs | high TSH, Factor XIII mutation, high %CD56 Follow up | 8.8.23 | prescribed metformin, prednisone, plaquenil, and levothyroxine Repeat labs after 3 weeks on meds Follow up | 11.9.23 | Green light!, increase in prednisone, added lovenox Repeat labs in 8 weeks Follow up | 1.16.24 | Green light continues TTC ended due to filing divorce **New relationship starting May 2024** Surprise BFP!! | 9.7.25 | EDD 5.11.26
@fifilala516 I don't think that makes you a terrible person. I agree with your thinking. Dying in a horrible manner or at a young age is tragic. Dying when you're 80/90 due to natural causes of old age is like you said - sad, but not tragic. It's an interesting conversation over proper use of words or how something should be described. I've read that there's some debate over whether saying someone is battling/fighting/beat cancer is... not necessarily insensitive, but just terminology that people want to move away from. I don't remember the reasoning but it made sense when I was reading about it.
Yes, and I should have clarified - an elderly person dying of natural causes is what I mean by "sad, but not tragic." I think an elderly (or anyone, really) person dying of Covid or something that could have been prevented is indeed tragic.
It reminds me of a news story I saw a few years ago - an original Disney animator had died at 105, and the article said "no details were immediately available." And I thought, "...he was 105? Those are the details you need."
@bows22 Well I mean, I've been called MANY MANY things in my life. Satan. The Devil. Evil Spawn. White Knight. Biotch. Bitter Hag. :lol: Sorry that my SN is messing with your OCD organization... that'd drive me bat-shyte as well. But I mean... the name is just... awesomeness personified.
Re: FFFC Friday 1/29
Dx: low morph (1%), ANA positive, low decidualization score, high TSH and testosterone, histone antibodies
IUI #1-3 | all BFN
IVF #1 | 6.11.19 | 24R, 17M, 15F, 6B, PGT-A tested - 5 normal, 3 girls & 2 boys
FET #1 | 9.10.19 | BFN "I know you, but we've never met. I'm with you, but I don't know your name"
RPL, Receptiva, & ERA testing | all normal/negative, recommended going on gluten and dairy free diet for next FET
FET #2 | 3.31.20 | Opted to cancelled due to pandemic, continued diet and tried naturally over the summer
2nd Opinion with another RE | 8.20.20 | Not immune to measles (received 1 dose); SA results similar to 2 years ago; decided to move forward with FET #2 redo at start of next cycle
Surprise natural BFP! | 9.22.20 | MC 10.23.20 at 8 weeks
TTCAL naturally | starting 11.22.20
Initial consultation with Reproductive Immunologist | 9.14.21
Decidualization score biopsy | 10.1.21 | abnormal - low score of 1; endometrial scratch recommended and progesterone supplementation
Saline sono | 10.15.21 | normal
Bloodwork | 10.21.21 | high TSH, high testosterone, positive for anti-nuclear antibodies and histone antibodies, high protein S, multiple genetic mutations
BFP! | 11.3.21 | EDD 7.14.22
DS born 7.19.22 after induction
TTC #2 begins 6.2023
Consultation with RI | 6.6.23
Saline sono, endometritis biopsy, skin & eye check | all normal
Labs | high TSH, Factor XIII mutation, high %CD56
Follow up | 8.8.23 | prescribed metformin, prednisone, plaquenil, and levothyroxine
Repeat labs after 3 weeks on meds
Follow up | 11.9.23 | Green light!, increase in prednisone, added lovenox
Repeat labs in 8 weeks
Follow up | 1.16.24 | Green light continues
TTC ended due to filing divorce
**New relationship starting May 2024**
Surprise BFP!! | 9.7.25 | EDD 5.11.26
It reminds me of a news story I saw a few years ago - an original Disney animator had died at 105, and the article said "no details were immediately available." And I thought, "...he was 105? Those are the details you need."
October 2015 - 1st MC. 7-8 weeks along. Suspected molar PG, but luckily just a MMC.
June 2016 - 2nd MC: 4-5 weeks CP
September 2016 - 3rd MC: 4-5 weeks CP
RE 1: ALL the testing - 'unexplained' "Yinz can do IVF or try on your own"
Feb 2017 - 4th MC: 6 weeks
RE 2: More tests. Still 'unexplained.' Called fat for an entire hour-long appointment, cried a lot
Feb 2019 - 5th MC: 6-7 weeks
IUD - March 2019-March 2023
RE 3: Repeat all the tests. Hoping to try IVF.