Showing posts with label Infertility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Infertility. Show all posts

Monday, February 27, 2017

Decisions

Hello Everyone!

It’s been a total month of crazy. Well, I should say it’s been about two months of crazy. There’s been work and health issues that have popped up and I had to choose something to step away from. That thing was my blogging. I love getting my thoughts out and interacting, but there’s sometimes a need for a breather.

That being said, I’ve heard a lot of people mention that they haven’t heard from me recently.

2017 has been an interesting year for me. A year of decisions, which I guess I wasn’t expecting to start out.

Hubby and I made some important decisions regarding our infertility, and which direction we’d like to go with starting and raising a family.

Hubby is still in the midst of making a decision about schooling and graduating.

Work-wise, I made the decision to take straight night-shifts for reasons very obvious to me. They’re not so obvious to other people.

Writing wise, now that I’ve finished the entire Commissioned Series (first drafts of the later books), I’m looking at what I want to do with it. My writing partner and I founded a writing group in our area, and we’ve had to make some decisions about what direction we wanted our activities to go. We also had to decide what was too much, and what would be fun for our writers.

I’m starting to see things calm down, but that doesn’t mean that life won’t throw another curveball or two. For now, I’m writing, I’m working, and I’m staying happy.


How about the rest of you? How’s 2017 treating you so far?

Friday, April 22, 2016

Living With the Disease: Infertility

As a nurse, I deal with a lot of diseases. Everyone has their own trial, and their own thing to endure. For me, it’s infertility.

In a few months, my husband and I will have been married for seven years. It’s been a crazy journey, but I wouldn’t give it up for anything. Soon after we were married, we decided we were ready to start a family. Unfortunately, that wasn’t going to happen.

I’d dealt with some health issues over the years, and we realized that many of them were because of imbalanced hormones. For almost 2 years, I went through treatments to balance them out. After my hormones were stable, we started to try again. But after almost 2 ½ years, we still hadn’t gotten pregnant.

We went to a clinic, and our NP started testing, and we started treatments. I won’t tell you how difficult it was, or what kind of side effects came with them. It was a special kind of torture, but one we were willing to endure for a family. For six months, we lived like that. The expectation and the obsession almost drove me mad.

Finally, we were sent to an infertility specialist, and we started even more testing. We learned that it was more than one issue, and it was both me and my husband. Our chances are slim to basically none.

It might seem like that was hard news, but to be honest, it was easier to accept that we couldn’t have kids than I first thought. Dealing with the expectation every month, and obsessing over whether or not I’m pregnant was much worse.

About a year ago, we decided to try and adopt. We’re still waiting for someone to choose us, but we’re choosing to stay optimistic.


For any of you curious, here’s the link to our profile: http://adoption.com/profiles/KQuintana-5734

If any of you know if anyone looking for someone to adopt, please keep our names in mind. Thank you.