The Back Story

Greetings Friends, Let me "briefly" fill you in on our "Back Story". Mary Kathryn and I were married on March 14, 2009 in Heflin, AL. Since then, we have began building a very nice and comfortable life together. Around May 2010, Mary Kathryn began experiencing great pain in her pelvic area. The pain soared off the charts during the beginning of her "cycle". It took a trip to her urologist with what was thought to be kidney stones for her to be diagnosed with endometriosis. Trust me, the pain and discomfort from this disease is as bad as trying to pronounce it. Her regular gynecologist scheduled a laproscopic surgery (microscopic surgery with 3 or 4 small incisions) towards the end of May. When he began the surgery, he was hoping to just "explore" to see the extent of the disease and hopefully clean up what he could. What he found changed our lives forever. The disease was so widespread and so aggressive that he immediately scheduled a laprotomy (wide-open abdominal surgery with approximately 8in incision) in just a few weeks. After the doctor did his best to scrap and clean out all effected areas and a l-o-n-g recovery period for MK, it was suggested that we seek help from fertility specialist or put MK on Lupron (places a 25 year old in a state of menopause) for 6-12 months! Obviously we chose to seek the help of a fertility specialist and settled on the services of ART Fertility Specialist of Alabama. After another laproscopic surgery in December 2010, we thought we were finally going to begin In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Wrong!!  Test, after test, and even more tests, it was determined MK's "levels" were not at optimal points to have a successful attempt at IVF.  So back in for laproscopic surgery again in July.  Finally in August, we had a serious discussion about IVF!!  First week of September, we were cleared to begin our 1st cycle of IVF!!!!!

-Bradley