Episode 80: Down for the Count
Matt and Doree's Eggcellent Adventure: An IVF Journey
Matt Mira and Doree Shafrir
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Matt's still waiting to hear about his semen analysis results. He has also been smoke-free for over 6 weeks! There are responses to the egg signals about having a luteal phase defect and doing an egg retrieval as a trans man, and Doree goes on a mini-rant about being called an infertility "warrior."
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, everybody, welcome to Matt Dory's excellent adventure. I am your most excellent host, Matt. |
| 0:16.8 | I am your second most excellent host, Dory. It's probably really reversed if you think about it. |
| 0:23.7 | So there's some notes. Dory likes to read some notes up top and then one of them, of course, |
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| 0:34.1 | you're lukewarm on us, three stars, and you can, you can just stop listening. Yeah, I mean, if you're |
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| 0:46.9 | that's our Facebook group. You'll find a lot of people there who are there to support and to give |
| 0:54.0 | advice and to talk about things that aren't necessarily related to IVF, but are certainly geared in |
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| 1:25.7 | 413-461-B-B-B-B-B. Podcast is on Spotify. Thanks to everyone who told us. |
| 1:37.2 | Thank you. Thank you. Who asked? Um, remember someone was like, I found you got some Spotify and I was |
| 1:43.2 | like, that's weird. I didn't think we were on Spotify. Well, honey, we're everywhere. We're everywhere. |
| 1:52.4 | Lamentic. Ah, let's go to the inspector anyway. It's not a person. |
| 1:59.6 | If you want to hear more about that, you can listen to the James Bonding episode from a couple |
| 2:04.5 | of weeks back. Dory was kind enough to guest on and talk to Matt and I and Amanda about the James |
| 2:12.4 | Bond film specter. Anyway, we haven't heard from Dr. Beck. Although Matt did go in for his |
| 2:17.6 | semen analysis. Yep. I did. Yeah. How was it? Uh, you know, I decided since I was 15 minutes early |
| 2:25.2 | and there I was going to really take my time. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was a whole thing. First of all, I had |
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