Guest guest Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 Hi guys... I just arrived back home last night at 3:30 ( a mere five hours late, how I love United airlines...NOT.) and I met up in NYC for the long weekend. We arrived within a couple of hours of one another on Thursday night, and left Tuesday night...allegedly 15 minutes apart. But, of course, he was smart enough to avoid United, and so he arrived in Paris HOURS before I got home to SF. We had a great time: Broadway theatre, horse drawn carriage around Central Park...jazz clubs in Greenwich Village...the Met (it took two hours to get through the Impressionists alone!). It was his first time in NY. I was my first time in NYC since September 11. We went down to the World Trade Center...and it was just shocking. I worked in the WTC, on the 89th floor of the First Tower that collapsed. We took the train out to New Jersey, to a friend's house, and when we returned, we came up the escalators into what used to be the WTC...only now...it's just this huge gaping pit...escalators leading nowhere, in a way. I remember how it used to be, when I commuted for a while into the City. I came into that station every day...into a station teeming with life: people, stores, up into the lobby of these gigantic buildings. To have nothing there...to think of all of the people gone, lost...it was too much for me. I was really, quite literally, going into shock. I started shaking and hyperventillating...shaking my head back and forth, hoping that somehow I could process this thing. FIve years later, and it just hit me like a ton of bricks. I lost a lot of friends in that disaster...I had only left my job a mere year and a half before. It just was too much. But, at the same time...a necessary part of the grieving process. Happier moments: we fell in love with my friends' baby, Emma. She's 15 months old, smart as a whip, and absolutely adorable. taught her a bunch of French words...and she seemed to just love to hear him speak to her. I am now "TaTa" (which is the affectionate term for "Auntie" in French.) ANyway, we kind of have baby fever in a big way right now...so we'll see..... A year ago, before this surgery, I had given up the thought of ever having a child. After all, I had polycystic ovarian syndrome, I was 100 lbs. overweight...and I was 41. Now, I'm 42...but my PCOS is under control, and I'm 100 lbs. down...and I have hope. I saw my ob/gyn this a.m. for an appointment, and she was pretty encouraging. Our friends who have the child got pregnant the natural way...and he had a vasectomy reversed after 13 years! He took a bunch of vitamins that his urologist prescribed (he's sending me the "recipe", and I'll send it out to any of you (DAVID) who might be thinking of trying, but never did because of obesity and bad numbers. In any event, even though statistically, after 10 years of vasectomy it is usually considered a lost cause...they managed. So, I figure, if they can do it...why can't I? The point is...I have hope. And that's a gift that this surgery gave to me... Cheers to you all, Robynn wrote: No posts since the 27th...either the board ain't working or everyoneis out enjoying themselves. I'm hoping for option #2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 OMG Robynn!! I think its wonderful you are trying for a child!!!! You would make a great mom!! > No posts since the 27th...either the board ain't working or everyone > is out enjoying themselves. I'm hoping for option #2. > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 Sounds like a great trip Ta-Ta. : ) And yes, I wouldn't mind taking a look at that recipe. > No posts since the 27th...either the board ain't working or everyone > is out enjoying themselves. I'm hoping for option #2. > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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