May I begin this post with: EWWWWWWW
It's amazing the things you will read sometimes. Believe me, when I clicked on this article I actually thought it was going to be cocktails I could give my husband to improve his semen for conception. I expected it to have things like wheat grass and zinc and not... well... what it has.
I am home sick again today. The weather here is giving me horrible migraines off and on. I am trying not to take any drugs, but I will be happy when the storm system clears our area. My husband has also taken today off sick. For me being sick still means I have to get work done. I'm currently on a contract and so I don't actually have things like sick days and vacation time. But I do have a really fabulous boss and a very flexible work environment. I am doing some research that I can do at home just as easily as in the office and it allows me to control the light better and lay down when my head gets especially bad.
My second set of blood work came yesterday so my darling husband and I may go out and get that done this afternoon. I would rather get my TSH done right away just in case there is a problem. I think that with having had an adrenal gland removed already I am more susceptible to things like Hashimoto's disease and hypothyroidism because my hormones are unbalanced and my poor right adrenal gland has to work all the time and never gets to take weekends off the way your adrenal gland does. For me there is always the threat of adrenal insufficiency and death if i get run down.
We also have to have our communicable disease blood work done. I am not concerned about this, i know we will both pass with flying colours, but does anyone know what happens to couples who have something like syphillis or hepC? Are they not allowed to use assisted reproductive technologies (ART) or does the staff just use special precautions when dealing with samples from that couple? My understanding is that it has much more to do with the handling of biohazards than anything else.
When I did research my last project that I worked on was on the bacteria that caused syphillis. So hypothetically contracting syphillis was a workplace hazard... just me and the streetwalkers can say that! We actually had one of the lab techs stab herself in the finger with a needle filled with syphillis once. Imagine having to go home to your husband and explain that one. Fortunately I never suffered and injuries of this sort. So we should be good to go for IUI when our time comes.
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