Overachieving Donor for Overachieving Liana
r. Le Roux was playing close to the vest but his ultimate hand was better than I ever imagined. My lovely donor, C had 31 eggs retrieved!! I cannot believe it. I am totally flummoxed. I expected about 7 and hoped for 10, since that is typical for CFC, but she just blew me away. [...]
I Love This Place
ne week in Cape Town and I don’t want to leave. I wake every morning to a wonderful series of blues: blue skies and an ocean of myriad shades of blue. I think I’ll stay here forever. I just need to send for the cats. Robin (of Renew) called on Wednesday to say that she [...]
Thanksgiving Day Nightmare
his morning I woke up in a panic. My late morning dream was one where I awoke from a nap to discover a note someone had left above my bed. The note said that the retrieval had been moved from Monday to today and I needed to get Mason’s specimen to the clinic within an [...]
Here At Last
e made it. We are here in Cape Town, far, far away from home. After the world’s longest series of flights, I am currently chilling on the deck of our beachfront apartment. It is not to be believed. We flew from Philly to Atlanta, Atlanta to Sal Island, Sal Island to Johannesburg then Johannesburg to [...]
How Weird Is This?
ou all know that I lost my mother last week. That was/is terrible in and of itself. There are, however, additional strange coincidences that are weirding me out. My boss, R, lost his mother a few days after my mom died. Two people, same department, losing their mothers within one week. Hmmm… Just when I [...]
A Small Fraction Better
onight I feel a small fraction better. Not a decent fraction like 1/3 or 1/2, but maybe about 1/256 better. And it is because of Joe. Today I called him when I knew he would be at work. I cried to the answering machine. I cried that I thought he hated me, maybe because I’m [...]
Aftermath
am spent. Seriously spent. I don’t think I have any strength left in me at all. My brain feels fuzzy. I’m not even sure this entry will be coherent. But I need to vent. I need to vent about what happened to me after the funeral. Let me first back up by saying that my [...]
Eulogy
y mother’s funeral was Saturday. She had asked me a long time ago to deliver her eulogy. I think that writing and giving the eulogy was one of the most difficult things I have ever done. Many people believe that a eulogy is supposed to summarize the life of the person who died. She was [...]
Ericka Marie Berkeley MD
Ericka Marie Berkeley was born in New York City, New York on August 22, 1937 to Norman and Katherine Berkeley. She spent her early childhood in Hamilton, Bermuda and returned to Bronx, New York where she attended Walton High School for Girls. She went on to New York University where she received her Bachelor of [...]
Gone
y mother died at 4:30 this morning, PST. I cannot even begin to imagine my future without her. The funeral will be on Saturday. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.