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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Warning Label

They should put a warning label on movies. They really should. 'This movie contains situations that couples suffering through infertility will find heartbreaking/too close to home.' Yeah, Okay so they're never going to do that.
Last night Hubby and I sat down for a movie night. A night to unwind and take our minds off things. We picked two light-hearted comedys. 'Big Fat Wedding' which features the likes of Robert DeNiro, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, Katherine Heigl and Topher Grace(also known as the kid from 'that 70's show').  And 'Admission' with Tina Fey and Paul Rudd. We figured from the previews that they would be pretty safe bets.We were wrong.
Spoilers hereafter:
In 'Big Fat Wedding' Katherine Heigl's character is dealing with infertility and her marriage has fallen apart from the stress. 'Fours years of treatments and humiliation' The second those words popped out of her mouth, my husband stands up and goes 'Why the hell did we rent this?!" I just sat there my mouth kinda hanging open, squirming a little with the uncomfortableness. 'I didn't know that was in here, we wouldn't have got it. It wasn't in the previews.' Yeah so much for a light hearted comedy. It all turns out okay for Katherine Heigl's character she winds up pregnant, apparently by accident, (lets not even go into that!) and gets back together with her estranged husband. Might I add that it seems like more of a slap in the face since she also played in 'Knocked up'.
So we moved onto our second feature of the night. 'Admission'. We expected something even lighter here, maybe even a little bit of stupid funny. Uh Uh. Not what we got. Tina Fey's character gave away a child for adoption when she was young, Paul Rudd's is trying to get the kid and her together. Great, just great. Peachy. Not what we were looking forward to. There's a few heartwrenching parts where the kid talks about how lonely adoption is. I don't want to hear that.  My husband just shook his head when we realized what we were getting into, "Boy, we sure can pick them tonight."
It's amazing the level at which infertility affects us. We can't even have a movie night without being on guard.
Today the Urologist finally called us back, it's been almost a week! He suggested two options: wait 3 more months and repeat the Semen Analysis yet again or do a testicular biopsy. We're understandably not too fond of the second option, I mean what man jumps up and down at the prospect of having his man parts cut open and inspected. He hasn't decided yet which way to go. But I'm leaning towards repeating the Semen Analysis and if there is still no positive change, then maybe we'll do the biopsy. I want answers, but I don't want him to suffer any more than absolutely necessary. Anyways that's we're we are at, at the moment.
Oh, one more thing my niece turned one today. Happy Birthday to her.

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