Private Pain
Every Wednesday I get a little bit of reality shoved slammed so hard into my face my stomach lurches. But I can’t help but come back for more every week.
Last year when Grey’s Anatomy sent Addison Montgomery, Kate Walsh, to LA for a field trip (a viewer’s test) they also tested her eggs. With only two, or three left, I didn’t keep count, I was hooked…and I think many other women who deal with infertility were too. Well, and adding Tim Daly to the cast bode well too, right?
Now, with Private Practice in full swing on Wednesday nights I’m sunk.
This week’s episode brought Addison’s character’s grief to the forefront when she had to deal with birth mothers “giving up” their newborns.
It is a tough one for women dealing everyday with infertility. They say it gets easier as time goes on…dealing with infertility. But, does it? When we were first dealing with infertility some of my friends knew. Well, only one and only because she got to put a shot in my butt. My mother also knew because she got to do the same thing, as my husband was out of town.
After we did our first fertility treatment it became known to all of our neighbors that we had finally completed our first round of infertility treatments. Only a select few knew that we had been trying to have children for quite some time and they defended us when people made quips about us living as dinks in the big house down the street.
But when we decided to adopt it was a celebration…until friends started to conceive like sex on Prom Night. And, even the neighbor across the street who had forced her husband to have a vasectomy got pregnant. Hmmm, can’t ignore that affair, right? I was hit by a line of fire and my good friends tried to shield me from the arsenal.
But, like Addison, I feel her pain. It does get better. Some days.
On other days I still yearn for the pain to stop.
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