Wow..its amazing how much can change in one day. At the beggining of the day I was ready to write how everything is on track and we are heading to Denver any day. We had a few set backs this evening. Well when I say set backs I guess I mean potential deal breakers. I don't think that I will get much sleep tonight but I know that its in Gods hands...totally..This is one thing that I cannot control no matter how much I want it.
I got to meet with Joy and Shirley today, we did lots of praying. I'm so blessed to have them. If everything goes through ok tomorrow then we will be headed to Denver in the next week with Nikki. We still don't know when. What stinks is we don't usually get the calls until evening..so waiting is tuff. Hopefully there is really good news to share soon!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
I'm not sure where to start tonight...first of all I cannot even begin to say what the support of texts, calls, and facebook messages meant to us today! We had huge highs and huge lows all in the last 12 hours. I actually had lots of tears even at times I didn't know what the tears were about.
We literally started with an appointment at 7:30am and got back to the hotel at 6:30pm. There were lots of other couples in the waiting room from all walks of life. There were even people that have flown in from other countries because this is the clinic with the highest success rate in the country. We feel so fortunate that we are this close to it. We had hoped to do the embryo transfer by June but doesn't look like that will happen that quickly. We did all sorts of testing today on Mark and I..then they drew blood to test for any genetic diseases. We met with a counselor and both got psychiatric evaluations to determine if we were strong enough to go through with all of this. I found out that Ehlers Danlos, the genetic disease that I have is found on the 9th chromosome. Also that Mark and I don't have to both be a carrier for us to pass it on, as it is one of 400 possible genetic diseases. One parent having the chromosome abnormality gives the child a 50 percent chance of having it as well. We have the option to have the embryos tested for Ehlers Danlos and that gene removed. Of course that is like everything else involved in this very costly but worth it to us. There are a lot of hard decisions that we hadn't realized before today. We will need to do a lot of praying. Unfortunately insurance does not cover anything..absolutely nothing but we knew that going in. The next step is to bring our surrogate Nikki to Denver for her work up. We are really excited for that step and getting to spend more time with her. Once her evaluations are done we can start planning for the egg retrieval and embryo implanting. Because of our age they usually implant 2 embryos. Nikki and I will both have to go on hormones. Mine to stimulate egg production and Nikki to make her body believe it is pregnant already. They said that my hormones sometimes make people sick and pretty unbalanced. Mark is not looking forward to this time haha. I will take injections and Nikki will have a patch. I know that this feeling of being so overwhelmed with tasks and questions will pass as everything gets closer. For the egg retrieval we will have to be in Denver for 7 to 10 days before Nikki has to come. We will then have to stay a couple more days with her. I hope any of this post made sense as I feel like there are a million things going through my head. Still trying to make sense of all of it myself. I just can't wait to get farther along in everything. I know in my heart that things will go the way they are supposed to go. God has his hand in this. We are so lucky for the opportunity and to have met Nikki.
We literally started with an appointment at 7:30am and got back to the hotel at 6:30pm. There were lots of other couples in the waiting room from all walks of life. There were even people that have flown in from other countries because this is the clinic with the highest success rate in the country. We feel so fortunate that we are this close to it. We had hoped to do the embryo transfer by June but doesn't look like that will happen that quickly. We did all sorts of testing today on Mark and I..then they drew blood to test for any genetic diseases. We met with a counselor and both got psychiatric evaluations to determine if we were strong enough to go through with all of this. I found out that Ehlers Danlos, the genetic disease that I have is found on the 9th chromosome. Also that Mark and I don't have to both be a carrier for us to pass it on, as it is one of 400 possible genetic diseases. One parent having the chromosome abnormality gives the child a 50 percent chance of having it as well. We have the option to have the embryos tested for Ehlers Danlos and that gene removed. Of course that is like everything else involved in this very costly but worth it to us. There are a lot of hard decisions that we hadn't realized before today. We will need to do a lot of praying. Unfortunately insurance does not cover anything..absolutely nothing but we knew that going in. The next step is to bring our surrogate Nikki to Denver for her work up. We are really excited for that step and getting to spend more time with her. Once her evaluations are done we can start planning for the egg retrieval and embryo implanting. Because of our age they usually implant 2 embryos. Nikki and I will both have to go on hormones. Mine to stimulate egg production and Nikki to make her body believe it is pregnant already. They said that my hormones sometimes make people sick and pretty unbalanced. Mark is not looking forward to this time haha. I will take injections and Nikki will have a patch. I know that this feeling of being so overwhelmed with tasks and questions will pass as everything gets closer. For the egg retrieval we will have to be in Denver for 7 to 10 days before Nikki has to come. We will then have to stay a couple more days with her. I hope any of this post made sense as I feel like there are a million things going through my head. Still trying to make sense of all of it myself. I just can't wait to get farther along in everything. I know in my heart that things will go the way they are supposed to go. God has his hand in this. We are so lucky for the opportunity and to have met Nikki.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
The night before...
Tomorrow is the day.... We are currently in a hotel in downtown Denver waiting for the start of MANY appointments on our journey to baby Campos. We have found an amazing surrogate and are finally ready to get this process started! Tomorrow we will get so many questions answered.
I feel like I am way more emotional right now than I expected to be! I suppose just a little bit of me never really thought this day would actually come! Mark would like to add his two cents saying "I'm glad to be here" lol. We know this will be an incredible journey with ups and down but in the end every second will be worth it! That's all for now..our appointments start at 7am!! Tomorrow I will have much more news to share. Thanks for being part of this with us!
I feel like I am way more emotional right now than I expected to be! I suppose just a little bit of me never really thought this day would actually come! Mark would like to add his two cents saying "I'm glad to be here" lol. We know this will be an incredible journey with ups and down but in the end every second will be worth it! That's all for now..our appointments start at 7am!! Tomorrow I will have much more news to share. Thanks for being part of this with us!
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