Eggs!

Out of the blue, this journey is headed in yet another direction. On Valentine's Day, I received an email from a friend. A YOUNG friend, a friend who has been like a little sister to me for the past 12 years. She was offering to donate eggs to me! What?!?!?! I reread the email several times and then walked around in a daze trying to process the whole idea. It came as such a surprise to me.... it's such an understatement, but I was overwhelmed. I couldn't even respond to the email, I waited until I could call her when I left work that day. We talked, I talked with my doctor's office, her and I emailed back and forth and she even filled out the donor application, but I needed to sit down face to face with her to be sure that SHE was sure. After all, this is HUGE. I spent the rest of the week looking for any information I could on egg donation, especially via a known donor. And yesterday we had our face to face. Any issues or concerns were quickly talked through and decided upon, and even better, we are BOTH so excited at moving forward with this. I still think I'm in a bit of shock.

Using an egg donor was not something I gave any thought to, even though it's the first thing the doctor had recommended back in August after all my test results were in. It wasn't logical to me; I already had to use a sperm donor, so why try to find an anonymous egg donor too when I could move straight to donated embryos. But this was different. Instead of some mystery person that I just had a paper profile on, this was giving my future child the opportunity to have a whole other extended family. Not being able to use my own eggs was hard to accept, but in many ways, this takes away much of that pain. She still has to go through the screening process and be approved by the doctor, so until then, I will maintain some cautious optimisim, but inside I am giddy over this. And regardless of the outcome, I feel such gratitude and love towards this young woman and her amazingly generous offer.