This is a bit off the topic of this blog but I really feel it would be remiss of me not to make some kind of comment on the state of my country at the moment. On Friday we had a change of our prime minister. The guy, Peter, who challenged the PM for leadership is actually a MP in my city and he is a big advocate for putting refugees who try to get to Australia by boat into off-shore detention. It's an unfathomably cruel practice which sadly everyone turns a blind eye to. Coincidentally, these last few weeks children in those same detention centres have been self harming and hunger striking. Fortunately, in the end Peter didn't win the challenge. Some other guy, called Scott did get voted to lead by his party... Scott... who, by the way, no one in the general public until this point even knew of or cared about. But he's now our Prime minister. Oh and just another note, there was a woman in the group of 4, Julie, who was a potential for leadership. She was actually, in my opinion, the best candidate of the 4. But of course her party, which only has a representation of 22% women, immediately eliminated her as a possibility. Look, I have to say, I usually do not care one bit about politics, and I suppose that the rest of Australia are similarly apathetic. But I'm starting to wonder if our general public need to become a bit more angry, accountable and start doing something, I don't know what, to get our supposed leaders doing a bit more than throwing tantrums about who's the boss.
I'm getting over it. We have recently had the results of our 7th IVF round... which are... negative. sigh. I'm not surprised of course. It's starting to feel a bit ridiculous. Plan is to meet with a third doctor, who we have been waiting to see for months, to see what light he would shed. The thing I'm frustrated about is that IVF... it's not treating the problem at all, as far as I can see. I'm not a doctor but it seems to me that there's something up with the fact that our embryos are not hardy. IVF is just trying to maximise numbers, not helping to fix whatever is causing the problem with the embryos. But the thing is that the medical professionals don't actually know what the problem is for us... so IVF is all they've got to offer. I'm feeling a bit silly to continue with it, because who knows how long it could go on for, and who knows if for us, with whatever our problem is, whether it even could work. Well a few questions for the new do...
Watching from across the Tasman. We've had our moments, here, of course too. It was a bizarre situation, that Peter started it all, Malcolm got dumped, and Scott came through. Politics is pretty weird everywhere right now. I think it is easy for us all to be too apathetic. Good for you to be calling for a bit more involvement. Make those politicians accountable!
ReplyDeleteYes I bet you guys are watching it all from a rather smug position over there in NZ, what with your legend of a PM... it's a pretty special wee place you are from!
DeleteI also heard about another New Zealand MP who rode her bicycle to hospital to have her baby?? I'm not actually sure exactly how I feel about that!! There is definitely a part of me that admires that dedication to eco-friendly transportation though another part that's thinking - -- maybe taking it a bit too far? haha.