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I believe that everybody is born with a purpose, and I have always believed that I was born to become a mother. I’ve always put thought into what kind of parent I would be, the values that I would teach my children and how I would raise them. It has always been my life dream, as cliché as it sounds, to marry and have a big and happy family.
I married my childhood best friend, Todd, in the summer of 2012. I knew at that point that a family would be in the near future for us. After our wedding, I made an appointment to ensure that I was healthy and ready to have a child. I am a nonsmoker and live a healthy lifestyle. I was taking all the right steps to ensure a happy and healthy pregnancy. I truly thought that getting pregnant would be easy, and that within months my life long dream would become a reality.
Unfortunately this was not the case. After trying for two years, I kept making excuses as to why I wasn’t pregnant yet. I didn’t want to face the fact that maybe something was wrong. After three different tests and a lot of blood work, I found out that I had three endometrial cysts. I was told that I had a cyst inside each ovary and another attached to the outside of my left ovary, preventing me from being able to conceive. We thought, no big deal, I will have surgery and then I will be able to get pregnant.
When I woke up from my surgery, we were faced with the devastating news that we would never be able to conceive the conventional way. The doctors had to remove my left ovary and fallopian tube completely. After a simple test it was determined my only remaining fallopian tube was nonfunctional. My doctor stated that IVF was our only option to ever have a family. We were devastated. We try to stay positive and think of all of the good in this. Now knowing what is wrong, we are grateful that I can still produce my own eggs and I can still carry our child; we just need a little help from a clinic to do so. We had our consultation at the IVF clinic and the harsh reality of the cost hit us pretty hard. IVF can be a long, expensive and tedious process.
It has been such an emotional time for Todd and me. We have been through a lot in our life together, but nothing could have prepared us for this. I know the deep love and devotion that we have will get us through this tough time. We did everything right, and there isn’t a doubt in my mind that we are going to be amazing parents.
We are asking for your help. Please help us by donating to our page and help cover the cost for IVF. You will be giving us the greatest gift in the world, our child.
I married my childhood best friend, Todd, in the summer of 2012. I knew at that point that a family would be in the near future for us. After our wedding, I made an appointment to ensure that I was healthy and ready to have a child. I am a nonsmoker and live a healthy lifestyle. I was taking all the right steps to ensure a happy and healthy pregnancy. I truly thought that getting pregnant would be easy, and that within months my life long dream would become a reality.
Unfortunately this was not the case. After trying for two years, I kept making excuses as to why I wasn’t pregnant yet. I didn’t want to face the fact that maybe something was wrong. After three different tests and a lot of blood work, I found out that I had three endometrial cysts. I was told that I had a cyst inside each ovary and another attached to the outside of my left ovary, preventing me from being able to conceive. We thought, no big deal, I will have surgery and then I will be able to get pregnant.
When I woke up from my surgery, we were faced with the devastating news that we would never be able to conceive the conventional way. The doctors had to remove my left ovary and fallopian tube completely. After a simple test it was determined my only remaining fallopian tube was nonfunctional. My doctor stated that IVF was our only option to ever have a family. We were devastated. We try to stay positive and think of all of the good in this. Now knowing what is wrong, we are grateful that I can still produce my own eggs and I can still carry our child; we just need a little help from a clinic to do so. We had our consultation at the IVF clinic and the harsh reality of the cost hit us pretty hard. IVF can be a long, expensive and tedious process.
It has been such an emotional time for Todd and me. We have been through a lot in our life together, but nothing could have prepared us for this. I know the deep love and devotion that we have will get us through this tough time. We did everything right, and there isn’t a doubt in my mind that we are going to be amazing parents.
We are asking for your help. Please help us by donating to our page and help cover the cost for IVF. You will be giving us the greatest gift in the world, our child.
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Elyse Croft
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Wynantskill, NY