Sobriety, Day 27: The Night Before IVF Started (Feb. 2022)

I was a mess.

Ted Bauer
5 min readJan 27, 2023

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You can learn a little bit about my infertility journey in two spots:

That’s your backstory, if you care to check it out. Now let’s go to this story.

My wife and I decided to try IVF in February 2022. It ultimately failed; we found that out probably the second weekend of April 2022.

Well, the night before we started IVF, I decided to get shit-faced. Why? I think I was nervous about everything and whether it would fail, and I was just being a loser-y addict, to be honest. I am trying to get better at that now.

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Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.