We reached the last stop of a very long road: a Hail Mary in the form of intravenous immunoglobulin
In the Peanuts cartoons, everybody knows what happens when Lucy holds the football and invites Charlie Brown to come kick it. Why he keeps falling for it, though, is a mystery – or maybe a metaphor.
But we were late finding each other. I was 45 the day we got married – just over seven years ago – and I’m not blind to the rules of biology or mathematics. I knew what the statistics are regarding couples our age who try to get pregnant. And yet we considered ourselves lucky. Neither of us was sick. We had our jobs, and we had each other. Nonetheless, we wanted more, and so we kept trying. But trying gets harder as the failures pile up – hence the Peanuts metaphor. To be honest, I’m not sure how we kept going, or how we stayed even a little optimistic.
But here’s a piece of information you won’t find in any baby book: Six months later – after the surgery and the recovery and the final dose of IVIg and the transfer and the waiting
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