I had my usual fluid check ultrasound on Friday, but had a new tech. She commented on the bruises from my insulin injections and also the scars from the gall bladder surgery (rather impertinent, but she said, she "didn't want to hurt me"). After explaining both, I commented that this hadn't been an uneventful pregnancy and I threw in, as I often do, that it had been a while in coming. She then asked if we had done fertility treatments. Not one to be shy about infertility when asked, I explained that we had but that this baby was a result of an unassisted cycle just prior to a planned ivf cycle.
Then, she made the cardinal sin of saying, "That happens a lot. I think it's because people relax." I replied with the sarcasm dripping as loudly as I could get the faucet going, "Since our infertility was exclusively male factor, I guess it was that the sperm just needed to relax in order to multiply sufficiently." She actually said, "That must have been it." And she meant it.
I really hope I don't get her again.
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Just. Wow.
Oh dear God. I don't know what else to say.
You have fabulous self-control. I can only imagine the choice words which would have come out of my mouth.
She really said that?
What a glod-plated asshat.
Honestly.
J
Oh for goodness' sake. Big eyeroll here.
The only person to ever say that to me got a huge ear full. (And in her defense, she had no idea that Matt and I had any trouble since I had never told her.)
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