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donmitch79
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It's happening!!!
donmitch79
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in Adoption
I am beyond excited...we just heard from our social worker and we are officially in the homestudy process! I feel like I just found out we are pregnant!
It will be 3 years on Friday when I was diagnosed with late stage cancer and then found out 5 days later that I was 2 months pregnant. It was so sad when we found out about the baby because we tried for so long to conceive. My body was so sick that for some reason blood tests didn't show the pregnancy. I had to carry the pregnancy for 4 more weeks knowing it was not viable and possible. Neither the baby nor I would survive the pregnancy based on how bad my cancer was. I was dying.
I am called a miracle by my doctors and just hit 2 years cancer free. Our life is finally moving on and I am healthy. We are starting our happily ever after and will be parents. I am so happy and overcome with excitement and emotions!!! YAY!!!
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Re: It's happening!!!
Congrats!!!! As an almost 5-year cancer survivor, I say welcome to the Survivor Club and the Adoptive Parent Club!!!
The ladies (and men) on this board are beyond supportive and helpful! Good luck and keep the posts coming!!!
Yea!!! And yea for beating cancer!
I am a cancer survivor too!!! It was a rough journey to my mommyhood but I'd do it all again to be where I am today.
PS- What type of cancer??
TTC September 2010 thru October 2011
SA February 2011: Normal
RE App. October 2011 - Recc. Clomid and IUI
Taking a break from TTC to pursue adoption
Met our 2 year old son in Russia July 2012!
Court trip October 2012
Home November 24 2012!
Back to RE Summer 2013. TTC journey continues:
Dx DOR, endometriosis, low sperm count
Clomid + IUI#1, #2 = BFN / IUI #3 = ???
Laparoscopy scheduled December 2013
TTC since March 2010, BFP #1 11.09.10, ectopic, m/c 12.14.10 (10w)
Clomid + TI=BFN, IUIs 1-6= BFN
Application for domestic adoption submitted 4/18/12, matched 8/12/12, DD born 10/31/12
Thank you everyone! You guys are the best...I have learned so much from all of you over the last 2 months of reading this board. It's so nice to feel that I am not alone in this journey. We all have stories, heart attack of sort and hope for a family.
Seeing the pictures of your little ones makes me smile!
I had colon and rectal cancer which was caused by a rare genetic based disease, although no one in my family has it - a fluke thing that happened at the point of conception. When I was diagnosed, I had my large intestine removed along with part of my pancreas, which does not allow me to carry a pregnancy as well as there is a 50% of me passing the disease along, which 100% guarantees colon cancer. It's frustrating because chemo did not cause the infertility it was supposed to. I wish it did because I worry every month that I am pregnant. It's so hard because everything works but my body can't physically carry past 20 weeks and there is a 50% chance our child would have cancer.
On the bright side, I'm finally at the place where I am forgetting I was really sick. It's awesome!
What did you have? How are you doing? Do you get monitored really closely still? It's so nice to know there is parenthood after cancer!
What a story!! Glad you are on this side of it
I had a soft part sarcoma... super rare.... diagnosed at 19 w/recurrences 26 and 33. Yep.. I am monitored like crazy... there's still a chance I'll have another recurrence w/the type of disease it is so I am faithful w/scans, etc. I've had a wacky road w/it all..... Like you, the chemo and rad didn't leave me infertile but because my cancer is "fed" by vascularly, the increase in blood supply during a pregnancy would most likely cause a recurrence so it's just too risky.
I belong to a not-very-active yahoogroup. Lots of good stories... adoption_after_cancer. Feel free to join us
PS-- For domestic adoption, once our homestudy was complete w/doc notes, etc., cancer was never really an issue with adoption. It was a long road for us but that was not because of my cancer history.