The hiatus...
In 2008, after two years of failing to make a child organically, we learned the doom Kathy had already been feeling for more than a year was justified: I was diagnosed with male-factor infertility. Our only real chance to move forward would be in vitro fertilization. We couldn’t afford it; we couldn’t afford not to do it. One way we tried to work through that diagnosis, our anger, and our options was to start a secret infertility blog, “Less Than a Million.” This post and what comments from 2008 that are attached to it come from that blog.—gb
was somewhat unintended, but oh well. Our procreative ambitions are in holding. I have open applications to jobs in states that mandate fertility coverage, but I do not know what if anything will come of them. So here we wait and question whether and how to make contingency plans, which is even harder to do because we are still paying off our initial tests.
Last week, good friends who have struggled with infertility even longer than we have announced they are having twins. Their news is exciting, and it is not a little frightening.
