Thursday, October 25, 2012

The Possibilities with JESUS!


My wife and I would like to share some news with our facebook friends and family. A few of you may already know....but we wanted to make it facebook official!

This Sunday will be our 12th wedding anniversary. Throughout the 12 years we have spent 8 of those years battling infertility. We have spent thousands of dollars trying to beat infertility. My wife has had 2 surgeries, medically induced men
opause, endless shots and has asked why thousands of times. We have battled depression, emotional nightmares, more downs than ups. Hearing of someone getting pregnant would deepen our emotions. We were never envious of them personally. But we were envious of the experience of becoming parents. (We've repented)

Earlier this year our friends Mark D. Sanders & Contessa Sanders recommended a Dr. in Cincinnati to us that was successful with helping them have a baby. We went in August and after meeting with Dr. Awadalla he highly recommended IVF due to the extreme endometriosis and PCOS. Having one of either of these is bad news for someone trying to conceive, having both is 99.8% certain you'll never conceive. For those of you that do not know this costs between $10k and $15k. We didn't have that kind of money but he assured us that his office would help us with applying for grants from organizations that would assist us with the associated costs. So we agreed, he gave my wife some instructions, a prescription of Metformin (to regulate how her body handled insulin, she's not diabetic) and a date to be back to him to begin IVF procedures. Today was that day. 

A couple weeks ago my wife began having some weird things happen. We took her to the ER and it was confirmed that we are PREGNANT!!!! We were confirmed pregnant in the very hospital that my wife was told 18 months ago that we have a 1% or less chance of ever getting pregnant. This happened without drugs, doctors...it was JESUS CHRIST!

So we showed up at the Dr.'s office today and Dr. Awadalla walks in to start the IVF procedures. That is until we informed him that we didn't need IVF now! (We had called the office 2 weeks ago but they obviously didn't relay the message!)

I have it documented on video of the Dr. saying that this was in fact a MIRACLE. He was blown away. Speechless at first. While doing the ultra sound he stated that the heart beat is "very strong and looked great". 

We would like to thank everyone from the bottoms of our hearts for praying for us through this torturous season called infertility. Please continue praying for us. Especially for my wonderful and beautiful wife and baby Young. It is still a sort of a shock even after seeing the ultra sound. I'm going to be a DADDY!!! :-)