Okay, so I never saw the movie 300, in which Gerard Butler screams “THIS! IS! SPARTAAAA!” But I’ve witnessed that particular scene about a billion times since it became an Internet meme, so now of course it’s gone where all other Internet memes go to die: this blog. Seriously, any such jokes are guaranteed to be played out by the time I use them.

But in all seriousness, this is Thailand. We’ve been here a little over a week now, although it feels like it’s been at least twice that long. I would have posted something earlier, but this trip…well, how should I put it, exactly? Hasn’t quite gone to plan.

As part of our ongoing (and so far unsuccessful) attempts to have children, we decided to get ourselves checked out by a fertility specialist here. Having not had any further luck with conception, it made sense to make sure there wasn’t some major medical problem in the way. And of course, getting such examinations in Thailand is always a good idea because 1) it’s far, far cheaper, and 2) the standard of medical care here, on a personal level, is actually higher than in the U.S. in some ways.

We went for our checkup pretty much immediately, and as a result, our latest crisis started pretty much straight away.

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