Even Meredith can get benched

I've written before about Grey's and their infertility storyline. I finally caught up with the most recent episode from last week, and am pleased to say that they are carrying on.

Warning: Spoiler alert!

This week, Meredith started having vision problems due to her fertility medications. I actually experienced this last summer on my second round of Clomid. so I was interested to see how it would play out. Let me tell you, it's freaky when one day you can see your monitor, and the next day, no matter how close you sit, how much you squint, everything appears in a cloud. When this happened to me, it was actually 2-3 days after taking Clomid for 5 days. It was also a month into a new prescription for my contacts. I wasn't sure what to blame it on. But it did eventually clear up.

I mentioned it to the nurse who performed that first IUI. She said she would mention it to the doctor. I mentioned it to my eye doctor. He did not seem concerned about long term damage. So, I wasn't too concerned with trying Clomid again. I did end up using it two more times, and the vision issue did not repeat itself. Thank goodness. I'm in a visual career. I'm not sure what I would do if my vision was affected long term.

In Meredith's case, it was enough to take her out of a surgery. She was also made to stop her injections, with just two days left of the drugs. She was cancelled. And then she was benched, when the chief barred her from surgery until her vision was approved clear.

It wasn't the biggest story line in the episode, but it shed light on the fact that fertility treatments are very complicated, and can affect our lives in ways we never would have anticipated. It also briefly touched upon how tricky it is for everything in a cycle to fall into place, and that it doesn't always go the way we hope. The fact that I could start a round of treatments, and not actually make it to the IUI at the end was something that had never crossed my mind until it happened to me.

It can get cancelled. We can get benched. And so can Meredith.