We selected an agency by the name of Surrogenesis, they were wonderful at first, connected us with an amazing surrogate and everything was falling into place. We were close to finalizing everything and our surrogate called informing us that she needed to back out due to her Mom being ill. I felt so heartbroken as this is such a time consuming process. As it turned out we had a friend step up and offer to help....everything went well and we did one transfer of 2 embryos in February 2008. This attempt failed, as did our relationship with our surrogate. We were blessed to have another friend offer to help, and after the mountains of paper work, appointments, contracts, etc..we transferred another 2 embryos, the day after Marcio's Dad passed away. This was a real tough time...I kept thinking God has taken him from us, but has a plan to give us our own child. That was not the plan. We decided on another transfer in December, this turned out to be using our best embryo along with one other. One of the nurses told me.."oh this is going to work, you are going to be parents" well...Marcio and I were on vacation with a friend in Tucson and when the nurse called me with the bad news..I was devastated. So that leaves us with 2 embryos....I had always worried about what we would do with our left over embryos..well that is something I don't have to figure out now.
We returned from vacation and were trying to figure out what we were going to do next. We had been researching adoption and thought that would be a blessing to give a child a home as we are bursting with love to give!! On March 13, 2009 we received an email from our agency contact that there is reason to believe our escrow money is gone. This was so shocking to us as we had felt we had done our research and had contracts to protect ourselves..well that was not the case, the owner of the agency we were contracted with was also had access to our escrow account. Our story was shared on NBC5 and PBSNOW. Ironically after our story aired on NBC I was let go from my hotel sales job...ironic to say the least. Marcio and I just couldn't understand how someone can steal from innocent people and not be arrested for it. The FBI is investigating the case, it's just incredibly frustrating. We are honest people that worked hard for years to save to have a baby and she is walking free? It's just not right. Marcio and I agreed we would do whatever we could to help, but to date there is no progress in our case.
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