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I am the devil that you forgot
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Well its Friday morning here in Mannum, my last day as a free man before I start a job with the government on Monday morning. I have an urge for writing today and after reading Toot's blog I thought maybe I could create blog here where people could talk about whatever they are thinking or want to vent or simply what happened to them today. We've done this on another forum I frequent and it works well. If it doesn't work so be it but I've had a massive few days and just need to get it off my chest.
My wife and I have two kids, my son was born through IVF after we found out having kids was a 1 in a million chance naturally. Our daughter came naturally while we were waiting to do IVF again, so in my life I have been blessed with two miracles. We have been trying for 18 months for our third and last month we had another go at IVF using our last two frozen embryos and it failed. Needless to say we were fairly devastated but we picked ourselves up and started to move on with our lives and enjoy the family we already have. My wife has a great government job and recently saw an excellent position in Mannum that paid much better and would allow us to sell a car and just have an even better life so she applied for it. Only two people applied for it and after the interview she pretty much knew she had it. I was excited because she said that if we sell the car I can buy the speedboat I've always wanted. Life was looking good, my son was slowly turning to Port, my daughter was too and now I can get a speedboat.
My wife gets called and is told the job is hers pending a medical, I start fist pumping and go straight onto the net looking at boats. Then yesterday morning my wife gets up real early spends about 5 minutes in the bathroom and comes back. I didn't think anything of it until she turned the light on and asks me if I can see a line on her pregnancy test. I looked through squinted eyes and could see the faintest of lines, it was faint but it was positive. Both of our previous pregnancies had also shown tests with very faint lines. Neither of us got excited because we had been hurt so many times over the last 18 months. The biggest problem now was that we needed to know if she really was pregnant because if she is she wouldn't be able to take the great job as she would not get the paid maternity leave and I would lose the boat :-( .
Off to the doctors she went, did another wee test and it was negative, my wife pretty much expected it but asked the doctor to do a blood test to be absolutely sure, he said no because the test was negative but she said alot was riding on the result so he booked her in. So she does the test and they say they will ring her with the results. Not thinking she was pregnant she and her colleague decided to go donate blood at the end of the day. There was my wife sitting in the chair about to give blood when she got a phonecall " you're pregnant".
Now I know it's only early about 4-5 weeks and anything can happen but i just can't keep quiet about it. I like people to know that miracles do happen, and that if you want something bad enough you can get it.
So it's been a massive few days for us and now I have to find another way to get my beloved speedboat. I'd also like to let people know that there are plenty of stories like ours regarding problems concieving and that regardless of what doctors say don't give up.
If you read to the end well done, future entries will probably not be as long.
My wife and I have two kids, my son was born through IVF after we found out having kids was a 1 in a million chance naturally. Our daughter came naturally while we were waiting to do IVF again, so in my life I have been blessed with two miracles. We have been trying for 18 months for our third and last month we had another go at IVF using our last two frozen embryos and it failed. Needless to say we were fairly devastated but we picked ourselves up and started to move on with our lives and enjoy the family we already have. My wife has a great government job and recently saw an excellent position in Mannum that paid much better and would allow us to sell a car and just have an even better life so she applied for it. Only two people applied for it and after the interview she pretty much knew she had it. I was excited because she said that if we sell the car I can buy the speedboat I've always wanted. Life was looking good, my son was slowly turning to Port, my daughter was too and now I can get a speedboat.
My wife gets called and is told the job is hers pending a medical, I start fist pumping and go straight onto the net looking at boats. Then yesterday morning my wife gets up real early spends about 5 minutes in the bathroom and comes back. I didn't think anything of it until she turned the light on and asks me if I can see a line on her pregnancy test. I looked through squinted eyes and could see the faintest of lines, it was faint but it was positive. Both of our previous pregnancies had also shown tests with very faint lines. Neither of us got excited because we had been hurt so many times over the last 18 months. The biggest problem now was that we needed to know if she really was pregnant because if she is she wouldn't be able to take the great job as she would not get the paid maternity leave and I would lose the boat :-( .
Off to the doctors she went, did another wee test and it was negative, my wife pretty much expected it but asked the doctor to do a blood test to be absolutely sure, he said no because the test was negative but she said alot was riding on the result so he booked her in. So she does the test and they say they will ring her with the results. Not thinking she was pregnant she and her colleague decided to go donate blood at the end of the day. There was my wife sitting in the chair about to give blood when she got a phonecall " you're pregnant".
Now I know it's only early about 4-5 weeks and anything can happen but i just can't keep quiet about it. I like people to know that miracles do happen, and that if you want something bad enough you can get it.
So it's been a massive few days for us and now I have to find another way to get my beloved speedboat. I'd also like to let people know that there are plenty of stories like ours regarding problems concieving and that regardless of what doctors say don't give up.
If you read to the end well done, future entries will probably not be as long.
