Peace

Nate and I are in Atlanta, I’ve been here since Thursday night getting my labs done up here. Friday I had a scheduled visit with my doctor. He went over my labs for the last week and confirmed what he thought before we started all this-I have old lady eggs. No, that’s not my official diagnosis, but for some reason I have a low egg count, which has been the cause of my infertility over the last few years. As you may or may not know girls are born with a certain number of eggs and there is no way to increase that number, but it decreases as we age. It’s good to have a reason, but it also means we are praying more than ever for healthy, mature eggs. At this point the doctor strongly suggests we freeze eggs for the future, because he is concerned it will be even harder for me to get pregnant as we get older, so at this point I have 5 follicles, which could mean 5 eggs, but we won’t know for sure until egg retrieval. As of now that is planned for Tuesday. So we will head home tomorrow after I get labs done here, then drive back up on Monday night. I will be put under anesthesia for the retrieval, but it should only take about 30 minutes. Then we’ll be back home that afternoon. It will depend on how the embryos mature as to when we will return for implantation. It still seems sort of unbelievable that this is happening, but we are super excited. Thankfully we have great friends and family who let us crash at their houses when we need a place to stay in Atlanta, thanks guys!! I can’t express how lucky we are. There hasn’t been a day since this has started that someone isn’t giving us an encouraging word or asking us what to pray for. It means so much to us to know that anyone would take time out of their day to pray for us. My doctor told me on Friday that he could tell how at peace I was with this process, which re-affirms for me God’s hand on my heart and in this process. It helps that I have a wonderful husband who is so supportive and makes me laugh constantly. Friday as I’m waiting on the doctor he’s texting me telling me I’m a warrior princess (who knows where that comes from), and my friend Tara texting me a prayer for my follicles. How can I be anything else but at peace when I have people like that cheering me/us on? So, on the prayer agenda for today: healthy mature eggs, specifically at least 2 good ones for implantation and 2 to freeze would be awesome. Sometimes I feel totally selfish for asking for so much prayer for us, so if you have any prayer requests email/message me and I’ll do the same for you.

“Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking and you will find. Keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives. Everyone who seeks finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:7-8