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If anyone had told me on my 18th birthday, half my age ago, that I would have cervical cancer, a radical hysterectomy, be going through IVF with cryopresevation, AND chemoradiotherapy by 36 I would have declared that person either a complete f*#kwit or high. But here I sit on the eve of my 36th birthday having gone through almost all of that and I think I am doing pretty well. Right now I am in the middle of ovarian stimulation which requires an injection of Gonal-F in the morning and Menopur in the evening. Soon that routine will change slightly, and so will the drugs, as the follicles (they want about 20) grow on my ovaries for retrieval on April 30th. I cannot even do the retrieval the “right” way either. That is going to require yet ANOTHER laparoscopic surgery to get the buggers. Keep in mind, fertility fans, that the NORMAL way to do this is to have ONE follicle mature, release, go down the fallopian tube into the uterus, and then actually have SEX to conceive. This baby-in-a-petri-dish process is going well enough, but is really bizarre on so many levels. Ask Scott about the porn offered at the office for his “test”. It’s a story only worthy of a conversation.

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