[blparent] Question for Single folks who may have tried ArtificialInsemination, IVF or similar things

[Danielle Antoine]

Slip it in your sermon IWIM. MD included in that list as well.

On 2/5/15, Danielle Antoine <singingmywayin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe not but you can certainly find a way to slip in your sermon. I
> know I would. Bleh! Bleh! to that doctor. I found out a long time ago
> a Master's or PhD. doesn't say much about good ol' common sense and
> compassion. Forget homework apparently. I'd call up the National
> center I try to speak with someone about this. Stupidity at it's
> brightest!
>
>
>
> On 2/5/15, Jo Elizabeth Pinto via blparent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Michelle, I'm gagging along with you.  I wish I could say I'm surprised
>> by
>> the narrow-minded attitudes of sighted people in general and the medical
>> community in particular, but I'm not.  I've been through eight years of
>> infertility treatments, and although I stopped short of considering
>> artificial insemination or IVF as options for myself and eventually
>> conceived a baby and carried her to term--to my utter shock and complete
>> joy--I understand your agony to the extent that one human being can
>> empathize with another.
>>
>> Beyond empathy and strengthened resolve to educate a woefully ignorant
>> world
>>
>> one idiot at a time, I can't offer you much except encouragement to keep
>> looking.  Do you have to get a referral in Canada before you can go to a
>> fertility clinic, or can you visit one on your own?  What about clinics
>> in
>> the U.S.?  Is there an organization in Canada that advocates for the
>> blind?
>>
>> Also, when I was having trouble with difficult family members who doubted
>> my
>>
>> ability to be a parent and wanted to take my baby away from me at birth,
>> I
>> contacted a wonderful organization called Through the Looking Glass.
>> It's
>> an advocacy group for parents with disabilities.  I don't know if the
>> services of that organization would include would-be disabled parents who
>> want to try artificial insemination, or if they serve Canadian parents,
>> but
>>
>> it couldn't hurt to contact them at www.lookingglass.org.  They might
>> know
>> where to point you, at least.
>>
>> Best of luck, and don't give up!
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you
>> may
>> kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
>> evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michelle Creedy via blparent
>> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 8:11 PM
>> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [blparent] Question for Single folks who may have tried
>> ArtificialInsemination, IVF or similar things
>>
>> Hello List
>>
>>
>>
>> I know this is a somewhat personal topic, but I need some advice. In my
>> single state, I've been pondering having a baby. I'm now off disability
>> and
>> all that and feel that I would like to consider artificial insemination.
>> I
>> just had the most distressing thing happen to me! I'd gone to see my
>> family
>> doctor who was supportive about the whole thing. He promised to make a
>> referral for me. I called my doctor to ask where the referral was too. He
>> said that the clinics all said I wouldn't pass the social test because
>> I'm
>> blind. It was the single and blind thing together. Made some remark about
>> babies choking and all that. I told him about all the capable blind
>> parents
>> I know. I was hoping he may try to advocate on my behalf but no. You
>> wouldn't know when the baby was choking. He seemed supportive and I don't
>> know whether he just didn't know what to say. He clames he believes in me
>> and has had my file sitting on his desk not sure how to call me.
>> Apparently,
>> the doctors all believe I'd not pass because I'd need 24/7 care with me.
>> That honestly almost made me gag!
>>
>>
>>
>> I plan on calling around to fertility clinics tomorrow. I also plan on
>> talking to my lawyer.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm in Canada in case anyone has Canadian experience with this.
>>
>>
>>
>> God bless the Federation as I try to write Sunday's sermon! That's not
>> going
>> all that well. All I feel like doing is standing up in the pulpit and
>> ranting about sighted people's attitudes about blindness but we all know
>> I'll be a good little minister and not do that.
>>
>>
>>
>> Michelle
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