Hello! Wow. Where do I even begin? I guess I'll start with the beginning of our story. My wonderful husband and I have known each other our whole lives..One night, (really literally, in one night) we fell in love. He is cousins with one of my best friends and one night we sat up and talked the entire night ...That very night I knew that I would marry him one day..I had never been able to so easily talk about anything and everything with another person, not the less one of the opposite sex. During that time, my husband was in the State Trooper Academy for the state of Alabama. When he came home on the weekends he was ALWAYS sick, always going to the doctor, who kept treating him for a sinus infection. Finally, it was so bad, he went and saw the doctor down at the base, who found the tumor in his nasal passageways. They immediantly sent him home and scheduled him a visit with an oncologist for the next day. After several biopsies, he was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma in his nasal passageways. He was lucky enough to get accepted to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital because the type of cancer he had is a childhood cancer and is pretty rare to occur in someone his age (23.) The effects that a chemotherapy regimen were explained to him and right before starting his first of many months of chemotherapy treatments, he went to the clinic and had Cryopreservation done. He then underwent 10 months of chemotherapy treatment, and on August 03, 2007, underwent his final treatment. He was given an eighty six percent cure rate. We were married on April 11, 2009, and a few months later, decided we were ready to start a family. Fast Forward : August 04 we went to the Fertility Associates of Memphis and had a sperm analysis. Last Friday, we were told that we would never conceive children naturally.
There are absolutely NO words to describe the feeling of knowing that you and your husband can't just start a family like everyone else. So far, I have went through the stages of heartbreak..then anger...fear...and now shock..the shock of how am I going to come up with 10,000 - 20,000 dollars to pay for this? Not having a child is not an option. My husband has been through so much in his life most people could not imagine..and he's only 27...now not knowing if he will get the one thing he wants the most in the world is devastating.
I have been frantically researching foundations, grants, clinics....anyone and everyone just to ask for help..for donations of anything.. I feel like this blog will help me talk, when I don't feel like talking..like it will help me connect with other couples who have already went through this journey for advice, or just emotional support.
Anyways, I look forward to getting to know you..
Please visit our website if you would like to donate to our baby fund...http://funds.gofundme.com/gigs ...Every penny counts...
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