One of the most asked question people have once i share with them what we are doing is “Why an ovary transplant?”
Its a great question! There are other ways to get pregnant, and other ways to bring a child into our lives. What is also true about Joy is that since the cancer treatment shut [...]
Today I had to have more blood work done. I was telling our story to one of the doctors that I see sometimes and to the phlebotomist that drew my blood. they were both so excited to hear about what was going on. it makes me happy to tell people and get [...]
It is one week before we leave SF and head to St. Louis. I put together this video to make sure i can do everything on the laptop, and be able to post once we are away from home.
As Joy says in the last post, all the support from everyone is making a huge [...]
I was just looking at all the responses that we have gotten so far. I feel so lucky to have such an amazing community of people supporting us on this journey. it is so encouraging to know that so many people some we know , some we have never met care enough to write to [...]
Altruism- unselfish interest in the welfare of others
This is one of my favorite words to describe my sister Maeapple
I have had the experience in the last few days of sharing my story about what we are doing and realizing that there is no way I could honor her enough for the sacrifices that she has [...]
As the day of the surgery gets closer there are so many things to coordinate. I have spent the so much time lately coordinating with the labs, and the hospitals, and Dr. Silber’s office, its at times quite stressful.
Today i found out that non of the test results that Maeapple has been doing have been [...]
The tests that we needed to coordinate last Wednesday got all done correctly.
I just spoke with the Barnes Jewish Hospital HLA lab in St. Louis and they received all the samples safe and sound. This is great! now we should have results next week, though we know it will be a match.
Learning how to post videos up on the blog.
Here is my first test.
This is a slide show my brother made for us for our wedding last September.
Enjoy.
i will test out more videos later in the weekend.
Since we visited Dr. Silber in December a slew of tests where ordered primarily for Joy and Maeapple but also for me. So far so good. I had my semen sample test done a couple of weeks ago, and the results came out normal. What i didn’t anticipate about this test was how much i [...]
It has only been a brief time since we put up the blog, and sent it out to friends, and already support emails and donations are arriving. It deeply touches me to see complete strangers send and email or make a donation to people that don’t know each other. It fills me with hope, and [...]