My friend Stephanie mentioned how upsetting she found the new VW ad with Brooke Shields in it. I found it quite inappropriate as well. You would think someone who went through infertility herself (as Brooke Shields did) would have a little more sensitivity then to do an ad like this. Check out the ad and let me know what’s your take on it. We will discuss it on our next podcast as well - coming out soon.
Who is the “aaron” person that decided to post all of a sudden?
Seriously though, it’s high time that I got back into the swing of things with posting to the blog. I’d like to thank my lovely wife Malky for filling in for me. 
I went to the doctor today for my post op follow up (try saying that 10 times fast) and everything looks good. He told me to continue with the Clomid for the next month then a month after that I need to have a blood test taken to see how things stand. He seemed pretty confident that everything will be good.
On another note, I only gained 3 pounds over the holidays.
Now that all the Jewish holidays are over, I thought it would be a good time to share some of my favorite things - to quote Maria from The Sound of Music.
I found this florist in Midwood who sells flowers at about a third of the price of online flowers - no kidding. He has a beautiful selection of all types of flowers that you can mix and match and create your own bouquet. These are the ones I bought recently. Pardon my ignorance, but does anyone know what the red and white flowers are called?
My next favorite thing is an apple/cherry pie that I made that was everyone’s favorite dish this holiday season. if anyone’s interested in the recipe let me know and I’ll post it.
Apple Cherry Pie
1 and 1/2 cups flour
1/2 egg
1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
1 and 1/3 sticks margarine (although I’m sure butter would work well too but I wanted mine to be non-dairy)
3 apples - peeled and grated
1/2 can cherry pie filling (28 oz)
Place first 4 ingredients in a mixer bowl. Cut margarine or butter into smaller pieces and mix with an electric mixer the first 5 ingredients. This is the shell for the pie. Separate some of it for the topping. Press the rest of the dough into a 9 inch round pan.
Pour 1/2 can of cherry pie filling into the pie pan, add apples and mix with a spoon or fork.
For the topping you will probably need to add a little more flour to the dough to thicken it a bit. Roll out dough. You can either do a traditional lattice topping or have fun making shapes with cookie cutters like I did. I used a triangle and crown shape cookie cutters and made the middle circle by hand. Bake at 350 degrees for about 1 hour and 15 minutes to an 1 hour and 1/2. It’s done when the top is nicely browned. Enjoy hot or cold. I like it better cold but either way to serve it is fine.
The other 1/2 of the cherry pie filling can either be used in a second pie or can be frozen for another time. It freezes very well.
Resolve will be hosting a workshop in MA soon to discuss options for those wishing to donate embryos and for recipients as well. The legal, medical and mental health issues involved in embryo donation will be addressed. Check out the details here.
I think this is a wonderful thing that they are doing with so many people struggling to decide what to do with leftover embryos. This can be a happy solution for both the donors and the recipients.
This weekend is the 2nd ever city-wide Fertility Awareness Program in Jacksonville, FL. All three local fertility clinics will be participating in an effort to increase awareness of infertility issues and treatments.
Three IVF cyles will be given away at the event. The October 18th program marks the start of National Infertility Awareness Week. To win one of the free IVF cycles, couples must be present at the event and they must register ahead of time for the program. Check out the details here.
Tomorrow night starts the holiday of Sukkos. Today was a crazy busy day - went to the gym, did yet some more grocery shopping, cooking and baking. After all that, I also decorated the Sukkah. Rivky made some beautiful things this year.
Rivky made the black and gold decorations in camp this summer.
Rivky made this one in 3rd grade - this year.
Rivky made this one in second grade.
Malky and Aaron interview About.com’s infertility guide Rachel Gurevich. We also share the poll results and discuss the news article:
As we mentioned in tonight’s podcast, Malky and I have run out of ideas for a new poll. Do you our dear listeners/readers have any ideas? If you do, feel free to post them here in the comments.
I think this article from the Los Angeles Times very well describes all the struggles couples face when they don’t know what to do with leftover frozen embryos. It also goes into details about the proposed Colorado amendment to amend the state’s constitution to assert that an embryo is a person.
It seems like Resolve is strongly opposing this amendment. I could imagine if the amendment does get passed, there will be a lot of sticky situations to deal with for both the doctors and their patients.
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