The Curious Monkey's Genetic Odyssey

The family doctor's clinic visit was great. There's nothing like running into a younger (late 40s) immigrant doctor at my family doctor's clinic who's a really intelligent guy. We hit it off right away. I wasn't sure how my "new age" thoughts would come across with the walk-in doctor I'd run into at the clinic. From experience and observation, other than some very elite top medical doctors, I find a lot of family physicians and a good bulk of specialist doctors (non-surgical), especially the older generation of Canadian doctors, to be self-righteous yet rather mediocre in intelligence and insight (the Canadian healthcare social structure puts them on too much of a pedestal and overprotects their privilege, which I will not go too deeply into on this blog).  Luckily, when I went there on the morning of Saturday Sept 8th (my family doctor's clinic has walk-in Saturdays for extended service to compete with the increasing competition of family p...

Given it's early in the back-to-school season and being a supply teacher, there's not much out there in the beginning of September, I spent my last week back from my west coast trip (Alaska->Vancouver) goofing around Toronto, getting life mentally and materialistically "back in order", for some definition of "order". The thought of freezing my eggs occurred to me about 2 years ago, when I was casually having a conversation with my older cousin who is 8 years older than me, about the technology of egg freezing, she casually talked about it as something she's thinking about. At that point I didn't have the sense of self I do now, and the whole idea seemed like an irrelevant spontaneous thought to me. Fast forward 2 years, I turn 27, flipped through several jobs, made some new friends, and recovered from an episode of clinical depression. With my increasing self-assuredness having overcame some obstacles, so grew my ambition to explore what the b...