One week ago Willow Nerys was birthed at home by my amazing wife Joy. We embarked together on a journey of family almost 3 years ago, it has taken determination, courage, hope, and love, as well as a huge number of our friends, family and strangers holding us, supporting us, loving us, and rooting [...]
I got the digital data from UCSF from our ultrasound this past Monday. They sure get lots of data from ultrasounds, after finding some good software to look at DICOM files i was able to pull out the images and some AVI files. Here is sample of what we got. I intend to put together [...]
This Monday we got an ultrasound done. I thought it was going to be a short visit, and it turned out to take well over an hour. I always thought it was like in the movies where you go in and in 30 seconds they are done. Am I glad it is not like the [...]
For the first ultrasound I was in El Salvador visiting my parents, and I was not able to be in the exam room. Becky, who’s generosity is beyond words went with Joy and took my brothers camcorder and took some video which i was able to watch a couple of hours later with my parents [...]
More good news yesterday. Got word from the embryologist. They froze 2 of our embryos on Monday, and another 5 on tuesday. These are the embryos we will use when we want to get pregnanat again, so having good healthy number makes us very happy.
A few things going on these last few days. Last week we did an egg retrieval from Becky. We got 12 great eggs, and all 12 fertilized. On day 3 the eggs looked great, the doctors said we could do a transfer on day 5. Day 5 is today. We did the [...]
A lot has happened since May of this year. We entered may with high hopes that the surgery in February had succeeded. Through June and July though we came to the painful conclusion that it had failed. We don’t have a certain reason why it failed, but hormone level test indicate that the ovary transplant [...]
Just got an email from Joy (she is traveling at the moment), her second period started this morning.
We had a long conversation this morning while i drove to work, she has been gone for some 10+ days now and i miss her. This morning i woke up missing her tons. Being away from each other [...]
Today, Saturday April 26, 2008
I started my first natural period in over four years
As many of you have been following and supporting me on this crazy ride I wanted to share with you all the news
This means that the ovary is working and we can start trying to get pregnant for real!!!
Close to a week since the operation and Joy is doing well. It has been a time to get rest, and stay close to home. The incision is healing well, and the pain is going down every day. It is now again a waiting period. Waiting and getting regular monthly blood work to [...]