I normally do 12 mm but they are almost a tattoo short, I can’t find any lash clusters that are just 13 mm so I had to go with 14 mm. Please let me know how they look! I’m going out with my husband in a couple hours and will redo them if I need to!
For context my husband (33 YO Male) and I (31 YO Female) suffered with infertility for about 10 years. Its not a secret to really anyone we meet, family included.
Our niece (liz) is turning 21 and in their family, it has been a tradition to take for Rob and Julie to take their child to Las Vegas. They pay for the birthday girl and invite everyone else to join in as long as they pay their own way (hotels, gas to get down there, food, activities). With their first daughter we were unable to attend due to finances but for Liz we were in a better financial spot and were excited to go. We booked the hotel and paid Rob and Liz for some tickets they bought for the group.
During this time, we started IVF treatments and had planned to have the Egg retrieval part done prior to going on Vacation. We were all new to this, so we had no idea the complications that could arise.
The trip was about two months away when we ran into some issues with my body just not responding to medications as we had hoped. I saw my Care Nurse and she provided us with a new Calendar. The calendar shows which medications to take on which days and a predicted date for the Egg retrieval. The issue? The predicted date for the retrieval was the SAME week we were supposed to go to Vegas.
Putting the Fertility Treatment on hold was an option, but we had already paid thousands of dollars to our Dr. and I had medication sitting in the fridge (roughly about $4600.00) that would be bad if we did ;not to mention the whole process is time consuming and mentally it really takes a toll.
Our only reasonable option was to skip Vegas and move forward with the treatments. I texted my niece right away explaining everything and apologizing; she was very understanding and did not seem upset. I shot over a text to Julie and explained what was going on; I asked if she could get a refund for the two tickets we purchased, but if not I understood and it was not an issue. Here is our correspondence.
Julie: Ok, Sorry. I don't know what else to say right now because I am pretty heated. I'll talk to you more when I have calmed down if you want. I will call on the tickets.
Me: Heated with me?
Julie: Yes
Me: Are you joking? Mad at us for not going to Vegas?
Julie: Yes
Me: You can be mad at me all you want. We have waited years for this and I am not going to apologize for making our family a priority. You act like this is somehow in our control. Do you honestly think we WANT to be doing any of this? If it were up to us, we would have two kids by now, but that is not the hand we have been dealt.
Julie: I'm not mad at you for making your family a priority. Like I said, I am just heated and need to calm down before I say anything else.
At this point I didn't respond. I was so upset. This is not what I was expecting from her, we have been so close in the years prior and ever since we started this fertility thing; I haven't heard from her. Other than their older Daughters trip to Vegas we have NEVER... and I mean NEVER missed a SINGLE birthday party, BBQ or any other family event they have invited us to.
It's been three days and I have not heard anything from her. I am spiraling and need to know... AITAH?