Insuring the Future - Taking the First Step
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 bigger world has to offer. I was hungry to further my personal growth in every avenue possible.
But with the living it up, adventurous mindset came the ticking biological clock. I love my freedom. I love being in control of my own life, having choices when I need to. There is a Chinese saying that "we use our time to exchange for money when we are young, and use money to buy time when we are old". Therefore, if the deck of cards you've been given by nature can be altered/enhanced with money, if a problem can be fixed with money, then it's not a terminal problem. It's a good time to be alive. And that's all the financial cost of modern technology revolving around egg freezing really is - whether or not you have the money for it.
Luckily, right now, money is a non issue. I am very privileged and lucky to have had the education I did, having saved from my jobs since my co-op work days in university, to have learnt the mindset of managing personal finance early, and have exposure to managing investments through my investment endeavours with my parents over the last decade. I've read extensively on the topic and while knowing that the cost of such procedure is decreasing dramatically and accessibility increasing, it still costs around $10k +- 5k CAD, based on location, clinic, medication, lost days of work, etc. There are many factors that can contribute to the cost. I will write a thorough blog post about the cost of this procedure after my research phase talking with actual clinics and physicians.
This brings the idea of egg freezing into material. I've made it a life milestone priority right now to get it done. All conditions are met, necessary and sufficient. Put in a insurance for the future, so I can have the choice when the time comes, than being subject to indeterministic variables. I took my first step of action by visiting my local New Life fertility clinic on Friday September 7th. It was a short visit. The receptionists told me to email the nurse for any questions I may have. I asked for a consultation session with one of the fertility physicians, and as goes all specialist appointments in Ontario, I needed to get a referral by my family physician - and that's where I am in my personal odyssey so far.
I've yet to email the fertility clinic nurse, if anyone has any questions they would like to ask so I can include them in the email to the nurse please reply below. Feel free to message me the questions as well.
Write soon :)
Curious Monkey Tappy
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 bigger world has to offer. I was hungry to further my personal growth in every avenue possible.
But with the living it up, adventurous mindset came the ticking biological clock. I love my freedom. I love being in control of my own life, having choices when I need to. There is a Chinese saying that "we use our time to exchange for money when we are young, and use money to buy time when we are old". Therefore, if the deck of cards you've been given by nature can be altered/enhanced with money, if a problem can be fixed with money, then it's not a terminal problem. It's a good time to be alive. And that's all the financial cost of modern technology revolving around egg freezing really is - whether or not you have the money for it.
Luckily, right now, money is a non issue. I am very privileged and lucky to have had the education I did, having saved from my jobs since my co-op work days in university, to have learnt the mindset of managing personal finance early, and have exposure to managing investments through my investment endeavours with my parents over the last decade. I've read extensively on the topic and while knowing that the cost of such procedure is decreasing dramatically and accessibility increasing, it still costs around $10k +- 5k CAD, based on location, clinic, medication, lost days of work, etc. There are many factors that can contribute to the cost. I will write a thorough blog post about the cost of this procedure after my research phase talking with actual clinics and physicians.
This brings the idea of egg freezing into material. I've made it a life milestone priority right now to get it done. All conditions are met, necessary and sufficient. Put in a insurance for the future, so I can have the choice when the time comes, than being subject to indeterministic variables. I took my first step of action by visiting my local New Life fertility clinic on Friday September 7th. It was a short visit. The receptionists told me to email the nurse for any questions I may have. I asked for a consultation session with one of the fertility physicians, and as goes all specialist appointments in Ontario, I needed to get a referral by my family physician - and that's where I am in my personal odyssey so far.
I've yet to email the fertility clinic nurse, if anyone has any questions they would like to ask so I can include them in the email to the nurse please reply below. Feel free to message me the questions as well.
Write soon :)
Curious Monkey Tappy
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