I seem to be on the upswing from my bout with the flu. Yesterday morning I awoke to find that I didn’t have a fever for the first time since Sunday night, which was good. Although I allowed myself to sleep late, I was going stir-crazy from being in my studio apartment for two days, so I ventured back out into the big bad world. It went fine, but even after a mere afternoon of work I was pretty damn pooped. I retreated to the couch this evening.
Last night, I did a little catching up on blogs. You know I’m pretty sick when a) I have no appetite and b) I barely get on the internet. Yeah, I checked some email here and there, and even managed to squeak out a Gothamist Food post or two despite my feverish brain, but I had a great deal of catching up to do. Still do, as a matter of fact. One thing that caught my eye was this article in the Observer about the increasing popularity of egg-freezing among NYC women in their mid-to-late thirties that I spotted via Gawker. Now granted, given my age, every now and again I find myself in that panic mode: Even if I met someone tomorrow, fell in love, dated him for a respectable time, and got married, it might still be somewhat late for me to give birth to my own child without a little scientific tweaking. And although I think I’d like to have a child at some point, I’m certainly in no rush to have one on my own. Hell, I still have trouble taking care of myself. But it has never, and I mean never crossed my mind to freeze my eggs so that I can increase the odds of having a biological child down the road.
Look, whenever it so happens that I meet the guy, whomever he is, having a family will happen, and only time will tell whether it will be through biology, biology with a tweak of science, or through adoption, but the end result will be the same — we will be a family, and that’s what I really want in the end.
Pretty heady stuff for the first day out of the flu, n’est-ce pas?
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glad to hear you’re feeling better.
yeah that article was insane, especially when you consider the price tag for freezing eggs that they’re not so sure will defrost so well, if you know what i mean.
glad to hear you’re feeling better.
yeah that article was insane, especially when you consider the price tag for freezing eggs that they’re not so sure will defrost so well, if you know what i mean.