Six hours before this photo was taken, I was sedated while having my eggs retrieved. As I settle into my rather undesirable status of an IVF veteran - now on my seventh round - I am doing and not doing the things I feel like doing more and more. At times that means I push back when my kind doctor, to whom I have grown close, (I mean how you could you not - I see him more than most of my friends and family) advises time off work to rest, or in this instance, not getting up and going out to an awards ceremony after sedation.