tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382308018846185973.post1020150903821666366..comments2024-03-29T00:17:02.023-07:00Comments on The Infertility Therapist: Infertility treatment and the disaster plan: or, another defense of negative thinkingLisa Rouff, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08061785161706265766noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382308018846185973.post-56528348891191554212012-06-09T20:54:14.028-07:002012-06-09T20:54:14.028-07:00This speaks to me so loudly! My 'disaster-plan...This speaks to me so loudly! My 'disaster-planning' has, it feels, been seen as my being 'pessimistic'and looking for the worst possible outcome. I have always said it was about ensuring that I not be blind-sided and left high and dry - I feel I function best when I am aiming towards something rather than drifting aimlessly.<br />Maybe control-freak behaviour, depends where you're standing as to what perspective you have.<br /><br />Our donor sperm plan was very much Plan B - something to aim for if 2 IVF with PGD didn't work out, yet it felt like an easy, natural and non-traumatic decision to decide to try and use it on the next cycle. While we have yet to find out if this is indeed a funded option, I feel a lot more comfortable knowing there is a preferred route for the next few months, and if it doesn't happen, so be it.<br />Talking recently to a friend about unrelated matters and she was mentioning about living in the question - the question being "what else is possible". that might sound the complete opposite to my control freak tendencies, but also has a warm reassuring nod that sometimes things happen in quite random roundabout and unpredictable ways - 'good' as well as 'bad'Stinkyhttp://beyondtheparentheses.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com