Homebodies Are My Heroes!!

I have gained a new appreciation for my life as a homebody.  I have always been one—I prefer to be in sweats over jeans, flats over heels, on my couch versus a bar stool.  All the way back as far as I can remember.  But over the past year, it’s gotten to be a much more appealing way of life.  When I’m going through a cycle (about to begin my third), I don’t consider my body mine for the time being.  A couple picked me out of a pretty amazing lot to be the one to—hopefully—give them a child.  I don’t take that lightly.  I am humbled to even be considered, and it’s an honor to be chosen.  For the month-ish long timeframe that I go through a cycle, my homebody routine goes into an extreme mode.  And I look forward to it every single time. 

I go to work.  I tend to the 80 employees and all their hopes and dreams all day long and I leave promptly (and happily) at 5:00.  By 5:30, I am in the park for my run.  Around Day 6 of injections, I turn the run into a power walk because things start to jostle.  By 7:00, I am at the market getting dinner, usually a salad from Gelson’s.  If it’s a Friday, I’ll get cornbread, too, because it’s a Friday, and well, it’s cornbread….  I’m home by 7:15, I’m showered and seated on the couch just in time to watch the news (and by “the news” I, of course, mean Access Hollywood).  I eat, I watch a little Law & Order and I’m in bed by 11. 

Because of the routine of nightly injections, I can’t very well go out, I don’t go to friends’ houses, I put myself under house arrest and I cannot tell you how amazing that time is.  It’s time for me to focus on keeping myself in the perfect, uninterrupted state to ensure that everything that my body goes through is a benefit as opposed to a detriment.  I look forward to having this time.  I look forward to getting back to some semblance of a routine after the craziness of the holidays—and even when it’s not post-Holiday season, it’s amazing how great having a routine feels.  It’s like a vacation.  But at the end of the vacation, you aren’t tan, you don’t have pictures; instead, you have an amazing sense of accomplishment and an overwhelming sense of gratitude for your couple’s having chosen you, for being able to experience something so incredible and participate in something so great. 

I’m gonna have a t-shirt made:  HOMEBODIES ARE MY HEROES.  Yeah, that’s what I’ll do.

-Kate, BHED donor