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08/12/09
Before I was born, my parents spent 6 years trying to conceive. This was just about the time that IVF was invented, but it wasn't being used outside of research labs yet. They were just about ready to cut my mom open so they could root around for a problem when my old Irish granny (who hadn't even graduated high school) mentioned to my mom maybe it could have something to do with the pills my dad took. My mom scoffed, if that were possible, the doctors would have asked! But she asked anyway and found out my dad's high blood pressure medicine caused temporary infertility. No one had ever asked anything about my dad's medical history and his doctor had never mentioned that side effect. My dad went off the pills and I was born less than a year later, despite my mom's advanced maternal age of 36.
I don't think all that much has changed since then. If anyone is having fertility problems, they should get their partner into a fertility specialist.
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This Jezegay is thinking that for me it's more like two and a half years.
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That duck isn't the only one! (There's a whole slideshow in the Telegraph.)
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As for the actual story. That sucks. I mean, really, really sucks. Those drugs can really mess with one's mind.
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Dr. David had valid points, though this is one place where I don't see sexism (which is shocking, because I see it everywhere). I do think docs resort to IVF a bit too quickly because the results are so much better (generally speaking) than other methods, like IUI or ZIFT and GIFT (I don't know if those two are even used any more).
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First off, no one would help because he's white, and techically a 'domestic' duck, unlike a mallard, which is wild. And domestic ducks don't belong at the lake.
But Delano the Disabled Duck (I named him after FDR) has been slowly improving. He couldn't walk for a while, so I brought him food. Now he can amble about -- slowly -- and swim. There are always a couple other ducks -- the same ones -- with him. Delano's posse.
All of the ducks are ruled by a giant mallard with a majestic white chest. His name is BaQuack Obama.
Yes, I need more human friends.
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But Delano has been slowly improving since mid-winter. He's going to be okay, in my non-educated view.
I am also friends with Moe the Mallard. He has a band of white around his neck. He's cool, although I'm afraid he's mentally retarded.
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Yes, but if a guy has immature or slow-moving or very few sperm, the only way for conception to occur is through IVF. Unfortunately, the woman often has to get pumped full of hormones even when the problem is the sperm, not the eggs.
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