Keil & Lauren IVF Fund
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Where do we begin?...
We started trying for our family 3 years ago. A year prior to us starting, I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Endometriosis.
If you dont know what that is, it is a disease in which the lining that grows inside the uterus, finds its way outside the uterus and starts attaching and growing on other organs (ovaries, tubes, cervix, rectum, in some cases lungs and even the brain)It acts the same as it would inside the uterus and builds up and sheds every month, but it has no where to go, so it causes scar tissue and adhesions and incredible amounts of pain along with infertilty. There are 4 stages, 4 being the worst. When I get my cycle, I am screaming in pain, fever, throwing up, dizzy, and unable to walk, eat or sometimes even move period.
We were refereed to the fertitly clinic after a year of trying after a 6 month hormonal thearpy treatment with no results. Our doctor preformed all the standard fertitly test and my husband came back perfect, my tubes were open, (with the exception of my right ovary glued to the top of my uterus) but the state of my pelvis was "Obliterated" in endo.
We moved to IUI and it failed. We then tried femera for a six month time period, and still nothing. We then got a call to try IVF. We started stimulation drugs and I was in immense pain, we later fouund out it was because I was overstimulated and our cycle was cancelled. A second shot at IVF came up and stimulation went smooth, was responding well. I started to become uncomforble near the end and my doctor informed me it was because my ovaries where the size of baseballs and I had a 5cm endometrioma on top of the enlarged ovary as well. Egg retrievel day came (along with the worst pain of my life) and they retrieved 14 eggs! Three days later we came in for our transfer. We had a perfect 9 cell grade A embryo! And 10 others! We were in our two week wait and heard back from the clinic that our other embryos did not make it, and were discarded due to late development.
We were heart broken but it was nothing to what happened next. I got, what I thought was my cycle and assumed ivf had failed. I had to draw blood for hcg levels for the clinic. Expecting a zero, I checked my number and it was 38, I then assumed I was having an early miscarriage. I had to get blood drawn every two days after that. Travelling hours to the clinic every other day, missing work, missing wages. The levels went up to 91, down to 34, up to 410, up to 600, but nothing was in the uterus. Our baby was fighting, but it wasnt in the right spot, it was diagnosed ectopic and my life was now at risk. We were told if we didnt seek medical intervention, and my tube were to rupture, the state of my pelvis may prevent them from fixing the bleed before I died. So we had to terimate that pregancy and say goodbye to our baby at 8 weeks along...and it still haunts us.
We were told to wait 3 months before trying again due to the drug that was used for the ectopic. It made the loss even harder, we couldnt move forward. Now that our wait is over, we are seeking IVF treatment again, only problem is its 14,000...
We are only asking for 6,000 as it covers the cost of egg retrieval and transfer, it does not include the cost of medication,freezing of embryos (7,200) or the lost wages due to having to travel to our nearest clinic.
Any help you are able to give is greatly appericated! big or small! You are helping us achieve the dream of having a baby to love and hold. We never got to hold our baby simmons, they were gone way too soon and we are just hoping and praying and wishing that their sibiling is in the cards for us, and we will be holding them soon.
THANK YOU FOR ANY SUPPORT YOU ARE WILLING TO GIVE
-Love, Keil and Lauren
We started trying for our family 3 years ago. A year prior to us starting, I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Endometriosis.
If you dont know what that is, it is a disease in which the lining that grows inside the uterus, finds its way outside the uterus and starts attaching and growing on other organs (ovaries, tubes, cervix, rectum, in some cases lungs and even the brain)It acts the same as it would inside the uterus and builds up and sheds every month, but it has no where to go, so it causes scar tissue and adhesions and incredible amounts of pain along with infertilty. There are 4 stages, 4 being the worst. When I get my cycle, I am screaming in pain, fever, throwing up, dizzy, and unable to walk, eat or sometimes even move period.
We were refereed to the fertitly clinic after a year of trying after a 6 month hormonal thearpy treatment with no results. Our doctor preformed all the standard fertitly test and my husband came back perfect, my tubes were open, (with the exception of my right ovary glued to the top of my uterus) but the state of my pelvis was "Obliterated" in endo.
We moved to IUI and it failed. We then tried femera for a six month time period, and still nothing. We then got a call to try IVF. We started stimulation drugs and I was in immense pain, we later fouund out it was because I was overstimulated and our cycle was cancelled. A second shot at IVF came up and stimulation went smooth, was responding well. I started to become uncomforble near the end and my doctor informed me it was because my ovaries where the size of baseballs and I had a 5cm endometrioma on top of the enlarged ovary as well. Egg retrievel day came (along with the worst pain of my life) and they retrieved 14 eggs! Three days later we came in for our transfer. We had a perfect 9 cell grade A embryo! And 10 others! We were in our two week wait and heard back from the clinic that our other embryos did not make it, and were discarded due to late development.
We were heart broken but it was nothing to what happened next. I got, what I thought was my cycle and assumed ivf had failed. I had to draw blood for hcg levels for the clinic. Expecting a zero, I checked my number and it was 38, I then assumed I was having an early miscarriage. I had to get blood drawn every two days after that. Travelling hours to the clinic every other day, missing work, missing wages. The levels went up to 91, down to 34, up to 410, up to 600, but nothing was in the uterus. Our baby was fighting, but it wasnt in the right spot, it was diagnosed ectopic and my life was now at risk. We were told if we didnt seek medical intervention, and my tube were to rupture, the state of my pelvis may prevent them from fixing the bleed before I died. So we had to terimate that pregancy and say goodbye to our baby at 8 weeks along...and it still haunts us.
We were told to wait 3 months before trying again due to the drug that was used for the ectopic. It made the loss even harder, we couldnt move forward. Now that our wait is over, we are seeking IVF treatment again, only problem is its 14,000...
We are only asking for 6,000 as it covers the cost of egg retrieval and transfer, it does not include the cost of medication,freezing of embryos (7,200) or the lost wages due to having to travel to our nearest clinic.
Any help you are able to give is greatly appericated! big or small! You are helping us achieve the dream of having a baby to love and hold. We never got to hold our baby simmons, they were gone way too soon and we are just hoping and praying and wishing that their sibiling is in the cards for us, and we will be holding them soon.
THANK YOU FOR ANY SUPPORT YOU ARE WILLING TO GIVE
-Love, Keil and Lauren
Organizer
Laurenn Marie
Organizer
Sarnia, ON
