Well, my 3-year old LG G3 phone melted down the other day. It is not pining for the fjords. It is an ex-cellphone.
As this tool was my lifeline and work tool combined, I may be incommunicado for a while. I’m using a smashed phone my friend lent me, and it doesn’t even recognize my sim card.
Meantime, my other friend is arranging something, possibly a raffle or other to get the money for a new phone.
See you on the other side.
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Let me know if you get a gofundme or whatever the heck them newfangled thingerbobbles are called.
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My Galaxy S4, just died. Nothing is going to bring it back. Lost all my contacts in the process but luckily all my photos were on the SD which survived.
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I want to earn it if possible. I’m on my knees, kind people.
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Two separate doctors have told me no more pregnancies. My body is just a little bit too special for it to cope with the stress.
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I’m sorry hon. That sucks.
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Getting pregnant again was a slim to none chance away, as I wasn’t going to do IVF anyway.
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Ivf is 50,000 dollars of maybe.
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Not in Australia
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How much is it, there? I overstated. It’s probably more like 15 to 20 here, to get started.
It cost us $10 000 all up for what we did. The hormones, egg collection, embryo transfer, the D&C when I had a missed miscarriage of the first one and then a frozen embryo transfer of the second one, who is now my daughter.
But that was two parts, it was $9000 for the hormones, egg collection and transfer. We got about $4000 back through medicare. That return paid for the second transfer. The D&C in hospital was free, even in private hospital. They don’t charge for miscarriages.
We were also paying a couple a hundred every six months to keep the final embryo on ice until we decided that I didn’t want to go through the process again. Not even just a frozen embryo transfer.
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So glad you have your daughter! Our daughter was going to be an ivf, since we were about 6 months into the process… but then the universe moved in mysterious ways and one of my (increasingly rare) swimmers found mama gamete, and thus daughtershine was created naturally.
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Still sucks though. Have you thought about adopting (if it’s not too personal to ask - don’t feel like you need to do so here)?
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I’m a pretty open person, happy to talk about nearly anything. We are considering fostering, hoping to foster to adopt. A straight adoption would be nearly impossible, unless you know someone who wants to let you adopt their baby. And my husband is already in his early 40s. (I married someone 11 years older than me.)
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Well, whatever you decide to do, good luck. Fostering is a wonderful service to society, so if you do that, kudos. And I think that you’re daughter is lucky to have you for her mom.
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I’m pretty damn sure I’m lucky to have her. She’s 3 now, and just incredible.
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I’ll just leave this in here:
I didn’t see a “Today” in there but, it must be.
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On Saturday my 6-year-old told me that she didn’t want to live in a world where people were so mean to one another. She later escalated that to “I’m going to kill myself” and drew more than one picture of herself being decapitated, each of which prominently featured a drawing of the knife that she was killed with.
She was already being assessed with regards to her tendency to have sudden and extreme mood swings, her next appointment is next month. I’ve spoken with nurses through a provincially offered health system, I’m going to be speaking with the school-based clinic where she’s already being assessed to see if we need to take more immediate action. I’m not at all at a loss for resources, I even have training and experience assessing suicidal risk and talking to suicidal people (though not children, so it’s only peripherally applicable).
I feel like I need a concluding statement for this piece of writing, but I don’t have any conclusion at the moment.
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Just received word that a good friend of the family/distant relative died yesterday.
I really liked him, so fuck this.
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Any, hopefully good, news on this?
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