Hello,
I’ve been away from this for quite a while. But lets gets stuck right in.
I went to the doctor in febuary, because of my recurrant unbearably painful piles, turns out they weren’t the only thing causing me terrible pain, i had numerous fibriods. They had distended my womb so much that although my stomach looks flat, the gynocologist said if my abs weren’t in such good shape i would look very different. My womb was bulky enough to be 4 months pregnant.
I didn’t have a response because it was a huge surprise to me. Then it came to me much later when i realised that i could well end up like my Aunt Audrey who lost her womb to fibriods at age 35, or more appropriately to a hystorectomy. i had numerous meetings with my lovely NHS Gynocologist, who was warm and very friendly.
We discussed my options, treatments, the pro’s and cons of each treatment. My lovely doctor was gentle but firm when he told me explicitly what each procedure would ensue, what the possible outcome could be. At one moment when confronted with the possibility of having a treatment and going in ovarian failure (worst case scenario- plan for the worst hope for the best is my motto) i realised that i wanted to have a child. Then i realised how difficult it would be for me i wanted to cry. But i didn’t because it wouldn’t help me or my situation.
It feels impossible, because I can’t even keep a boyfriend, how could i have or procure a father for my child. I live at home, i wouldn’t want to bring a child into a home that wasn’t mine. I want my child to have a good quality of life i don’t want them to go hungry, i don’t want them to feel that they cause me to struggle financially, i want them to go to see their ancestral home in the caribbean, like i have .
So having just started a job a few months previous, having no boyfriend who wants to commit to me, i began to feel depressed. At night i cried and comforted myself with thoughts full of hope. My mother doesn’t understand, she is and was a great beauty in her day, i am her shadow imitation. she had many suitors, she is so far removed from my situation although she cares, she doesn’t understand.
I looked at all the men who had been my partners boyfriends and lovers, and i assessed them for suitability.
Brown, early thirties, commitment phobic at times but loving in intent. He speaks in riddles. One day he says he wants to be your, you can take him, he surrenders to you, the next time he is his own man, and you cannot own him, you are possesive. He has two minds he is schizotoid with his emotions. If i could just get him to answer me truthfully if he wants me i could make a decision about him. But i get the feeling that he is holding out for someone he considers better. I always get the feeling that he is hopes for an african bride and not the west indian bride that i would be. It’s our bone of contention, i love my heritage and i will never relinquish it, i would never ask him to downplay his heritage, so why would he ask me to do that to mine.
Then there is my first love, the problem would be that, we live an ocean apart, we have never lived anything resembling normal life together. We were always chaparoned.Although i do know that i love him, there has a always been him in my heart. He is truthful ,strong and honest, loving and truely great.He is also good looking which is always a good thing. We have heritage and culture in common. But i would want to move to be with him. However there is the small matter of my mother’s dissaproval, his mother was a teenage mother and has a hard life. She is now a recovering alcoholic, he looks after her, makes sure she doesn’t start up with the boozing, makes sure the kind of men who prey on vunerable women, do not prey on her, that’s all good. But my mother dispises that kind of life and thinks that alcoholism and teen deliquency is in their blood. She likes him, but cannot get over his background, and that makes me sad.
Just as a joke i will consider Mr Audi, he is physically fit, very very physically fit. He is also a slut, he is a whore of the worst kind. But very nice looking. Not stable, not loving, he is kind in the most basic way, but he corrupts all he touches. so no he is not suitable.
At this point i always get depressed. Brown likes me but actaully wants me to downplay my heritage, so he can feel right about me. My first love in many ways is perfect, although in a moment of just pure desperation with our separation i told him to get another woman, because i could bear the though of him waiting on me and missing out on having a family and all the joy that having your own family brings. well oceans apart just tells all the story.
So My time is running out but no-one is on the horizon. The dating scene isn’t that nice to women who share my phenotype and my uterus apparently is more uninhabitable by the hour….
It makes me sad.