Lots to be thankful for....

Even though the sperm issue was not as we had hoped it would be... we still feel very blessed and feel we have a lot to be thankful for. We know our situation could be a WHOLE lot worse.  If the extra cost and the logistics of getting the sperm is the worst of our problems, I feel we should still be very thankful.  So these are things we are thankful for and why...

• Lots of eggs--The blood work for my egg reserve came back and my numbers came back better than for someone of my age.  I know some of you are like well..duh...Staci...you are only 32.  But you would be SO surprised.  I personally know women younger than me who do not have any eggs left and are going into pre-mature ovarian failure which means they will be going into menopause within the next year and they are only 30 or less!  My heartbreaks for these women, but I'm so glad there is still the option of donor eggs for them so they can still get pregnant and carry a baby.  But it's just so not right or fair for it to happen so early and their chance of their own biological child be striped from them so soon!  We should all at least be given to the age of 40 to try for a baby with our own eggs!  

• Healthy eggs--from our last IVF they feel I have eggs of good quality which is the most important.  You can have a lot of eggs, but if none of them are good you are sunk! :-(

• We have sperm---it's just a matter of getting it. I feel for couples who do not have sperm at all, and at that point they are having to look into sperm donors and so forth. I know that has to be so hard for both parties. We know Glen has sperm and we know from the past that they do know what to do. ;-)  So now... it's just obtaining some good ones from him and then  injecting them into my eggs and getting them to grow into beautiful little embryos and then babies.

• I'm not a carrier of cystic fibrosis.  My blood work came back negative. So I don't have to worry about possibly passing along that disease to my children.  I feel very thankful about that!

• My uterus looks perfect--so my incubator should be able to grow a baby without any problems!

• We have a doctor and nurse--- who we feel very comfortable with and that we feel are doing everything they possibly can to make this dream a reality for both of us.

• We have the technology that we do today to by-pass these issues and create miracle babies!

• For the most part we have the financial means to pay for these procedures.  Granted we will accrue some debt no doubt, but for the most part we can make it work by making sacrifices.

• And the most important blessing of all... is the love that we have for each other!  We know that with this love we can make it through anything. We will always be there for each other and have each other until the very end.  And that blessing is pretty damn hard to top!!