She looks pretty good! 5'8", brown hair, hazel eyes, age 20, a current university student, athletic, pet lover, very pretty according to the DE Coordinator Nurse, Oh and let's not forget ITALIAN!! Only downfall is she is not proven, however she is 20. I will be talking to Mr. Tony and if he likes the donor, then he needs to understand the risk of her not having donated before. We may want to consider the Integramed Shared Risk program, or else he can promise me that we'll do a second DE cycle if for some reason it doesn't work the first time. I'll review the profile with my darling husband this evening.
The funny thing is that last night he was complaining how long it's taking for them to get us profiles (which honestly is not taking long at all), and he said maybe he should go recruit a donor himself. For those of you who have been reading my blog since the beginning, you know that I have had periodic struggles with getting him in the same book, let alone on the same page as me. However now I just have to laugh because he is so cute with all his plans.
Thanks for all of your advice regarding my friend (see yesterday's post). I replied to her email and wished her luck in her quest to market her eggs, and told her to keep me posted. I did tell her that I didn't know any other infertile couples in my situation among the online community who would use an older donor, but that maybe they are out there and I hope she is successful. We'll see how it goes!
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I'm so excited for you! I can understand your concerns about her not being proven, but I'd say it's probably a safe gamble at her young age. But I would definitely talk to Tony about the shared program...maybe he'd be more willing to do it since she meets so many of your other parameters?
Very glad you guys are on the same page, and he's getting excited!
She sounds great! Since it's always a gamble, even with proven donors, I'd say go for it - she's pretty young and so long as there aren't any red flags with her cycle info, there's probably a great chance she'll be a good donor. Or if you can talk Tony into the shared risk, it would be even better.
20 is so young, there's a good chance she would do well.
Regarding your friend who wants to be an egg donor - it reminds me of a similarly awkward situation I had. I had a bit of a falling out with my SIL around the time I discovered I may be IF. She was not nice about it and once people started to find out she told everyone she *was* going to offer to be a surrogate and/or egg donor but now she wouldn't.
She was 36 at the time. Two years older than I was. What a saint, huh?
I think some people who haven't struggled assume they are *really* fertile.
Anyway, you handled it very diplomatically and I'm so excited that you are closing in on a donor!
Good response to your friend's letter. It sounds like its more about the money than helping infertile couples.
wow...that's difficult with your friend. i think you said the right thing. she's not being realistic at all. good luck with the donor.
Sounds like a very kind and good response to your friend who it would be difficult to reply to her situation. I'm so delighted with your latest donor profile and your husband's excitement. Sounds like a good plan with discussing the shared program, but hopefully because she's 20 she will be great...you would certainly think so. You are doing a great job with the donor cycle...I would think it could get emotionally draining at times...but you seem to be plugging right along :-)
Thanks as always for being there along the way for me - your words mean a lot (especially since I've actually met you...hugs)
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