Last week we went to our first IF support group meeting. I was really nervous about going, but I'm really glad we went. Not only was it great to meet a great group of people but the group will also be providing throughout the session a great amount of IF resources. They will bring in different groups and doctors each week to discuss things such as acupuncture and they will be having a demo, adoption resource group, doctors from IF clinics to openly ask questions about IVF and shared risk programs, etc etc. I'm excited about the amount of information we will be able to obtain. But most importantly talking with the others in the group made me feel so not alone anymore. It was so important to discuss my feelings with people who truly understood. Fertile people just don't get it and I feel like lately a lot of people who do know aren't very compassionate. I don't think they mean to come off this way, but they just don't understand. So having the compassionate feeling and the true understanding even just once a week or once a month will make a difference. I hope we can provide just as much support to others as they will provide to us.
On another note, today I feel almost 100% recovered. Last week I mainly had a lot of shoulder pain from the gas they pump into your abdomen. And my stomach would still hurt if I pushed too hard. But I have recovered nicely and am anxious for my cycles to get back on track so we can get started again. I hope and pray that we will have success sometime in the next 6 months or so with this septum being gone now. But again I don't want to get my hopes up too high. My post-op is next week, I'm anxious to hear what Dr. A has to say.
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