Admittedly, I'm not far past the teenage years, but at the moment I really do feel like I am about 13.
It was at the age of 13/14 that I got the delightful travel bug caught inside me. At the same time I was teenage, and regularly felt like the world was against me. I hated my parents, and every little thing they said or did really got on my nerves.
I blame this on the hormones. While ultimately how I act to things in any given situation is my responsibility, and I have the power to make a situation bad, worse, good or better, at 13/14 those hormones tend to take over the rationality of the mind, and it seems they are meddling with me yet again.
But I am not a teenager. What I am though, is a girl, who was confused, and I hate to admit angry 10 days ago. In fact any length of time before 10 days ago I was. Now though, my hormones are being meddled with, and I really have felt it.
I am donating eggs. I am currently on day 1o or perhaps 11 of my Supercur injections. The idea I think is that supercur takes over the hormones in the body and replaces them with hormones but in a different quantity, or stops them altogether. Not completely sure which one it is. I have to take them at the same time every day, because it may only take 5 mins for the body to start doing it's own hormones again. SO every morning i have got up about 8, and done my injection around 8.10.
At this moment in time there is a possibility that I could be experiencing what is known in the biz as a hot flush!! You don't get them as a teenager, true, but you get them in the menopause, and that is what my body thinks it is going through right now. It's no wonder that I'm angry and irritable at the moment. Simply waiting for the womanly curse, then I think I switch my treatment and inject in the evenings instead, start on the stuff that stimulates my ovaries, and then after that it's scans, and eventually egg collection.
Some people do not agree with the egg donating thing. Saying that it goes against nature. I suppose you could argue that there is a reason why a couple is infertile. Why that couple cannot have children. But they didn't ask for that. Just because they are infertile, doesn't mean they don't have a right to the most natural thing in the world for all species and all things. Humans, plants, animals. They all reproduce.
So perhaps having a child born using another persons egg, or another mans sperm does not seem the most natural thing to do. And I am the first to complain about humans becoming too clever for their own good, but perhaps, things like this were meant to happen.
Perhaps for evolution to continue there needs to be a slight mix-up. Perhaps science and man were supposed to make the progress that they have. I don't know for what reason, but just maybe it could be true......perhaps.
I have no problem donating eggs. I think it's a good thing to do, and I know that if someone wants to try having a child by means of someone else's eggs then they really do want a child. I've never been into children, never wanted them, and it's highly unlikely that I will (given my almost complete avoidance of things that create them). Therefor, I feel that donating is a respectable thing to do. I know that there are people who are desperate to have a child. You could say that they should adopt or foster. There are a lot of unwanted children on the planet already. If they want a child so much then perhaps they should have one of these. It's not that simple though. There are thing some women wish to go through. Not the IVF treatment, but the actual being pregnant and actual giving birth. The carrying of a child which gives the mother a child a special bond from the word go. I am very much in the opinion in this day and age that the person who loves and cares for a child is their mother, no matter what the genetics say.
There is no genetic modifying involved in this process. No playing God. All there is is a couple having a child that they really want, that they will love and cherish forever, and finally after possibly years of waiting, being able to have to have one.
Whoever may have a baby from my egg, I wish you all the very best of luck!
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