Word: joe
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...given up on fertility treatments, I visited a new gynecologist for a routine exam. When he heard the diagnosis (premature ovarian failure) rendered by a specialist at one of Manhattan's pre-eminent fertility clinics, he scoffed, "You're awfully young for that." I told him my husband Joe and I were launched on an adoption search, but he ignored me. Instead he palpated here, suggested we snip a sample for a biopsy there, then asked, eyes glowing with expectation, "Would you do anything to have a baby?" His confident expression dimmed when I answered firmly, "No, I would...
...into fertility treatment lasted barely eight months--an eye blink compared with the brave women who soldier on year after year. I found every moment of that battle against biology a nightmare. The first salvo was Clomid, prescribed by a gynecologist who, upon learning that I was 37 and Joe 50, warned, "Given your ages, you should proceed as quickly as possible." Eager to hasten a pregnancy that already felt long overdue, I swallowed the pills. But rather than stimulating more eggs, the drug plunged me into a deep depression that left me unable to sleep, eat or think...
...obsessed 24 hours a day, I did not fantasize the imprint of Joe's and my genes on a small face; my thoughts dwelled on the imprint of a small hand on my cheek. By the time we had sat out the seemingly interminable three-month wait to see a fertility specialist, I was thinking I'd like to adopt. But with Joe not yet ready to consider that option, I proceeded deeper into the fertility labyrinth...
Throughout the months of treatment, I frayed Joe's nerves with my fretting over each test and procedure. What if I messed up again on the twice-daily urine tests, designed to pinpoint ovulation, each of which required an hour of vigilance as I transferred the specimen between three vials at precise intervals? What if my luteinizing hormone surged before we received the results of Joe's latest sperm tests? Would the doctor still proceed with the intrauterine insemination? Timing, of course, was of the essence; miss the narrow window of opportunity and I would be sentenced to weeks...
...brief, if Joe Stalin were still alive and available, I would have tried to get him as, a Nieman speaker on the hunch that he might have some interesting things to say. And last spring the Nieman Fellows spent some hours interrogating that notable non-Stalinist newspaper publisher, William Loeb, in Manchester, New Hampshire. This Foundation's tradition is, in fact, as your editorial complains, "eclectic"--and we mean to keep it that way. James C. Thomson Jr. Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism