A Day in the Life of a Fertility Patient

3:30am or so--wake when LG pees in her bed, spend the night tossing and thinking
7:00am--begin the day, when LG comes into my room
8:20--leave for daycare
9:00—arrive at my office for breakfast and frantic prep
10:00—walk to Class #1
11:40—dismiss Class #1, race to parking garage
12:40—arrive at Dr. Gorgeous’s office, for a 12:30 appointment
1:00—finally get called back to an exam room
1:20 or so—Dr. Gorgeous comes in for a discussion of some “issues” that came up with the specimen and decides to do the IUI herself
1:40—I check my phone and realize I really need to be heading back, but Dr. Gorgeous still hasn’t come in to dismiss me, give me prescriptions and test results
1:50—I decide I can’t wait and get dressed
1:53—check out, the receptionist goes to find out what’s happened to my prescription, race to the car
2:45—pull into a parking space in the lot adjacent to the classroom building
3:00—go into Class #2 with absolute minimum prep (as in, I just looked at my notes from the last time I taught this book)
4:45—go to pick up LG for dinner, stories, and snuggle time
7:15—leave LG’s room to await the arrival of a friend
9:20—time for bed, take Benadryl and hope I don’t hear from LG until “seven-zero-zero”