joie: Dan's Coming Out Party

One pitcher under our belts, Dan and I listened attentively and with silent mystery as a colleague voluntarily shared his own fertility status. This man has the world's cutest four year old (no offense, Elizabeth...I still love you way more!). His wife is from India and the kid is just GORGEOUS.

We asked the innocent question, "do you still live in that one house off of Alberta St.?" and suddenly he started sharing. They sold it for a huge profit and bought a much larger house nearby. But, of course it is pretty empty. We'd like another kid and all, but you know, it hasn't happened. Not that its a big deal, you know...We haven't sought medical treatment or anything. We kind of wonder what's up after all this time, but you know....going to doctors and all...you know what THAT entails. Umm...How could we NOT respond? I jumped in with, "Actually, we've been going through all that ourselves. The only doctor in the city who has porn in his office...ha ha!" How was I to know this was going to be an invitation for a critical analysis of masturbatorium porn by Dan and our friend? I learned a lot. Not the least of which is how lacking of someone to talk to my husband is. I have the blogs and the message boards and a few close comrades in real life to discuss my ovaries and uterus and monthly blood. Who do our husbands have with whom to talk? Where do they connect to discuss testes and semen and morphology and motility? But, most importantly, which Reproductive Endocrinologists have the best porn?