My Lady of the Lantern

X told me to not hold back my cravings or Kaiser would salivate excessively! Yep, it was just few days back that I heard those golden words. X is about to visit us. She will be here on Wednesday and will stay with us till Friday evening. God help me! And its a good time for me to already start looking for my invisible cotton earplugs. ^WiseGuy^

Someone in my immediate family bought me a magazine to which he subscribes regularly. It was just a normal general life magazine. But the magazine was not meant for a casual read. It had an article/advertisement of some rockstar fertility clinic with super stats. Apparently, if you land there you will never come out unless you have a baby in your arms. Gee, thanks! And I love to take inputs from people who otherwise never ask me anything, or enquire about my status or plans for a baby or two. ^WiseGuy^

I want to share the verbal pearls that make it a hay day for any infertile....all received by yours truly in the first crudder of 2010. You didn't think I would have spared you...did you? " Add sprouts to your diet ." (Aha! ...the germination principle, I suppose?) " She should have an antidepressantpillbrandname mid-cycle ." (That's the latest thing in addictions really....prescription drugs...wow...imagine the possibilities!!!) " She and DH should go out every weekend. Go away from the city. Spend time with each other ." (It is correct. I tend to ovulate every weekend.) Now that the knowledge-sharing is done, I would like to take a while and do the big reveal . It had been guessed well by a bright one . Enjoy! ^WiseGuy^

I normally despise the gyan that some people give me for free on fertility issues. But there are also times when I hear genuine words. This is not something which was told to me yesterday or the day before. Month after month, I was a fallen wicket. One day I was sharing my frustration with my father and there was one small thing he said. He told me that maybe God was saving me from an even more severe heartache. (We have a neighbour, whose granddaughter was born premature and is special). So, I should count my blessings and never give up on my efforts, but I should never treat my failure as the most 'painful' possibility. In the series of who-needed-you advice, there was one aunty in my building who asked me to have sex on Poornimas (full-moon nights), because it would increase my chances of having a boy child!!! Whoa! Haw! Hum! ^WiseGuy^