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My journey with freezing my eggs

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Deciding to freeze my eggs was not an easy decision. I had gone back and forth. A few years ago I went to an OBGYN within my health coverage, within our system they don't do it, but she gave me the places that my insurance covers. She didn't tell me too much, as she didn't know a lot about it, but she told me the price. 12,000 dollars. That definitely deterred my pros and cons list.  After a few years since the OBGYN appointment, I had gone back and forth, back and forth. I had talked to my mom and my therapist about it, a few close friends. As I approached 35 and single, I thought about it more and more.  "Why freeze your eggs? When it comes to fertility, age matters. As you get older, your eggs diminish in numbers and in quality making it more difficult to conceive or maintain a pregnancy. This change occurs at different rates in different women but does occur in everyone no matter how healthy you may be otherwise. By the time you reach your late 30s, about half of y...
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The struggle with self worth (the journey)

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Warning: long post ahead. Probably hard to follow but that's how this works. Okay, so about five years ago, you know I was in counseling for struggling with abandonment issues. My dad was an alcoholic and even though that felt completely normal, that's all I knew. Well fast forward to now-ish and I started in a relationship and the reality of the situation became clearer. It was clear to me (and likely my significant other) that I definitely needed to go back to counseling.  I made an appointment with my counselor that I had used prior because A) I love her and she's fan-freaking- tastic, B) she knew my history and we had a great rapport.  I'm unsure if you've (whomever you are reading this) has ever been to counseling and heck, maybe it's different for everyone, but it can be hard to express yourself. And when you do get into the "good stuff" it often takes turns and switchbacks, detours and U turns, etc. It's hard to follow along, how therapist d...
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The update on the tib/fib fracture

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       Well, we meet again. Most of you, if not all of you, follow me on social media so you know what's been going on in my life. However, this update, this post, it's for me. It's about my leg.       Bare with me if you've heard this or know this information. Feel free to skip. In September, I was on a motorcycle trip on antique motorcycles. This specific trip was from Sault   Ste Marie Michigan (so pretty much Canada) all the way to the east coast and then down to South Padre Islands, TX. Anyway, I didn't get far and I was in an accident. If you want to read all about it and my reaction to the whole accident here is the link to the other blog that I wrote it in.  Blog about accident        It was a small town and it was traffic-y. I was driving behind a U-Haul; the light was green. I wasn't going fast, and I wasn't following behind the truck closely by any means. However, apparently the light turned yellow (pe...
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