I have been thinking about starting a blog for quite sometime now and for some reason I decided to start today..no better time than the present. Perhaps I also find this to be the "right" time because of everything we are about to under go in the next week....I will get to the details of that later. First I feel it's important to reflect back on how we got to where we are today.
The turn of the century was a big year for us....as we entered the year 2000 Marcio and I were busy preparing for our wedding in September and couldn't be happier. I went for my annual exam and to make a long story short, after many tests, I was diagnosed with a rare form of cervical cancer, this was in February 2000. After much thought, prayer and meetings with specialist I decided it was best for me to have a radical hysterectomy. Marcio and I had some good heart to heart talks prior to this decision and we knew we would do whatever we needed to do to become parents. I, of course was devastated at the thought of not being able to have a baby. The doctors mentioned that surrogacy and adoption would both be options for us to have a family. We were open to both.
Fast forward to the year 2005...after enjoying several years as a married couple we were ready to start our process to be parents. We both agreed that surrogacy was something we would try and see what happens. I also have Rheumatoid Arthritis so this complicated things a bit, I had to be off my medication in order to harvest my eggs. I had such mixed feelings, since there is not really any data as to what affect the drugs might have on my eggs...I thougth I will put this in Gods hands and see what happens. Welll...bottom line is I have one super ovary. We harvested 13 eggs that produced 9 good quality embryos that we froze while we looked for a surrogate. We knew this would take sometime to research and find the right agency.
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