I'm going to refer to my partner as "facco" here. It is a kind of cheeky phrase we came up with as a way of referring to him being my de facto partner. It's my replacement word for "hubby", a word oft used by the correctly married.
Well i think for microblog Monday I will give a little run down of father's day yesterday...
I let facco know I'm proud of him for being a good dad to our dog and cats...
And we shed some tears about our failed embryos...
And we shed more tears...because facco's dad is these days riddled with dementia and is soon to go into a nursing home as he's recently become unsafe to manage for facco's mum...
And... I saw my dad, and my perpetual- bachelor brother who has recently become a dad to a cat, and my other brother who is conventionally married with kids (although unconventionally living on an island, that we visited) ...
And well, i guess we all enjoyed and celebrated their dad-i-ness.
And I was super happy to soak up some quality time with my nephew and niece... (Who I might quietly add have named me their "best aunty")
And... I was also quite stoked not to get food poisoned by the oysters (which were bloody awful).
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...
<3 Sounds like you had a good time, even if not all was what you would have wanted.
ReplyDeleteI never realized Australia has a different father's day...than other parts of the world. I know Finland and the US are different, but never thought about other countries possibly being yet another date.
Thanks Heather! it was a pretty good day! Although another thing I didn't mention but got me furious was that my brother and his wife left us waiting at a cafe (that was closed) for 2 hours before we had lunch!
DeleteHi Heather! thanks for your comment... yes, it really is is a bit odd that the dates are different around the globe!
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