Speaker 1: Tuesday on the Pickup with Britt, Laura and Mitch h.
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Speaker 1: got an update for us here on your fertility journey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. I froze my eggs for the first
Speaker 2: time about three years ago, and then I froze them
Speaker 2: again just about a month or so ago. Now I'm
Speaker 2: going through that process with my partner Ben, who lives overseas,
Speaker 2: So I was sort of giving you guys live updates
Speaker 2: on that as it was happening, because I think it's
Speaker 2: really important. If you missed my last update, this is it.
Speaker 2: I only got four eggs, which is really low, and
Speaker 2: then one of those eggs immediately was no good, So
Speaker 2: I ended up with only three eggs and having had
Speaker 2: fifteen last time, and knowing that fifteen only makes that
Speaker 2: one child, three is very low. So I'm talking about
Speaker 2: egg freezing there if you didn't quite catch that. So
Speaker 2: this is the second time I had frozen my eggs,
Speaker 2: so I have like another update on that update. So
Speaker 2: I thought I was sort of updating you guys as
Speaker 2: I was going as the process was happening, and maybe
Speaker 2: I did that too soon so that I was actually
Speaker 2: with Mitch at the time. I got a call saying,
Speaker 2: you know, your three has gone to two. One you
Speaker 2: know was no good, And so I got upset at
Speaker 2: that because I thought, wow, like they're dropping like flies,
Speaker 2: but two still great. And then I received another call
Speaker 2: saying there was some complications and there weren't mature enough,
Speaker 2: and there's a whole there's a whole multitude of reasons
Speaker 2: that eggs and embryos and things like that don't fully
Speaker 2: develop and form and not viable. My two that I
Speaker 2: got were not viable. So I ended up with nothing,
Speaker 2: no eggs. Yeah, which is fine. It is fine because
Speaker 2: other people go through far more than that. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's definitely disappointing and a bit of a hit to
Speaker 2: think that you can go through this whole process for
Speaker 2: weeks of these injections and in your head you're like, well,
Speaker 2: I have science on my side, like I have everything
Speaker 2: pushing me in the direction to get what I need,
Speaker 2: and then to come up with nothing, knowing that I
Speaker 2: you know I had all the help I could get
Speaker 2: and I still didn't get one egg. As a woman
Speaker 2: is like, really, I knew my fertility wasn't great, but
Speaker 2: I didn't always that bad.
Speaker 3: But did they give you any information as to why?
Speaker 3: Because I know what the very first time you like
Speaker 3: what you said, this is your second time doing egg freezing.
Speaker 3: The first time you got fifteen eggs.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was about three years ago. I got fifteen eggs.
Speaker 2: I am doing it again in November. I'll go the
Speaker 2: third time, and I've spoken to my fertility doctor and basically,
Speaker 2: we're just gonna pump me so hard full of hormones excessively,
Speaker 2: which means I'm going to be really, really crook. You
Speaker 2: could possibly go into what they call hypervarian syndrome, which
Speaker 2: is very painful, sometimes be dangerous if they go too far.
Speaker 2: But they're going to try and get the balance just right,
Speaker 2: just maybe topple me over to get as many as
Speaker 2: I can. So I'm hoping it's not. I'm hoping. This
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that there's never ever going to be any
Speaker 2: I think, I say, and I say, like the next harvest.
Speaker 2: I think the next harvest is gonna be good. But
Speaker 2: I feel like I went to the farm's market, got
Speaker 2: a dozen eggs and like dropped him on the way home.
Speaker 1: You know, you say, like you know, it's it's not okay,
Speaker 1: it's not good, it's all. It's also all right for
Speaker 1: it to be a shitty situation, because it is. It's
Speaker 1: the reality of life. And like you've said, thousands of
Speaker 1: women go through this every day. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you can speak to it. I can't. As a man,
Speaker 1: I kind of fathom the emotions, but you must. You
Speaker 1: would think I'm a failure. This is me. You take
Speaker 1: it so personally, right, you just.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, you do, for sure. But it's not
Speaker 2: just me. I feel a let down for my partner Ben.
Speaker 2: He lives overseas, so he's living in Schooltland and it
Speaker 2: affects him as much as it affects me. You know,
Speaker 2: he wants kids. I live with the fact that he
Speaker 2: won't get them. He's so amazing and he's been so supportive.
Speaker 1: How to accuse you were with him when you found out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was beside myself because you automatically think the
Speaker 2: worst as well. Like I have complete faith now after
Speaker 2: speaking to my doctor again that we will get some
Speaker 2: in the next round. But at the time, you know,
Speaker 2: when you're like I almost felt better by walloween in
Speaker 2: myself pity. I was like, yeah, I'm never gonna be
Speaker 2: able to do this for you. I'm sorry, Like it's
Speaker 2: I can't even do it. It's science, you know. I
Speaker 2: just got really low. And he's like, this is not
Speaker 2: this doesn't matter. He's like, it doesn't change anything, and
Speaker 2: next time is going to be better and we're going
Speaker 2: to do this together. And he's he was really really great,
Speaker 2: and he's really big on positivity. He's like, don't let
Speaker 2: the eggs in there hear what you're saying.
Speaker 3: And I was like, there in there, they can't hear me.
Speaker 2: That's my update. I guess it's like one thing I
Speaker 2: do want to say to any women out there, I
Speaker 2: really would recommend going to get a fertility test, just
Speaker 2: even your blood test, because since I've been speaking about this,
Speaker 2: so many women of message saying I wish I got
Speaker 2: mine checked earlier because I went to get a checked
Speaker 2: and it's too late. I'm going to early menopause, my
Speaker 2: fertilities bad, I got into introcess so many things, and
Speaker 2: it's so easy to go and get that initial blood test,
Speaker 2: just to start the process.
Speaker 1: We got ya, We got your little eggies.
Speaker 2: No scrambled eggs for Bricky.
Speaker 1: Okay, well now you can make absolutely no.
Speaker 2: And I'm too awkward being serious.
Speaker 3: I always have to throw it in there.