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When I met my dh back in 1987 he was up front from the word go, that he had Cystic Fibrosis and as a consequence was rendered infertile, due to part of the vas deferans tubing being missing.
Despite this and my huge desire to have a family, we stayed together, with me never fully believing in his infertility, always believing there would be something around the corner with Medical Science, to enable us to have our family.
Wow and behold... a good many years later, ICSI was discovered, along with the fact that men with CF do produce sperm, but just can't get it out due to their missing tubing - hence the discovery of Surgical Sperm Retrieval and 16 years after meeting, the birth of our gorgeous son, Iestyn on our 6th ICSI attempt.
Well since then, my desire to have more children has overwhelmed me. We don't have anymore sperm in the freezer, so Dh would require another SSR for us to be able to have anymore.
That option is not feasible at the moment, due to health complications, which we are trying to get stabalised. However, we have always both lived in hope that one day, SSR's and ICSI would not be necessary because someone would find a way of inserting a replacement bit of tubing, to allow the sperm to come out the fun way (hmmm, never had the excitement of
wondering if that could lead to a pregnancy - that would be nice and give a whole new feeling to ).
It seems crazy that this has not yet been done (or certainly not that we know of), when they have been doing vasectomy reversals for years... OK, I know the tubing is already there for that, but still it is dealing with such micro tubing.
Does anyone else ever live in hope that this could be pioneered in the near future. It is something that we would actually travel the world to have done, if it were at all possible.
The thing is, I'm not sure that it's even being looked into, as I've never read anything about such research... so I think I am clutching at straws and have loads of wishful thinking.
Anyway, just wanting to get that rambling down and wondered what anyones thoughts are on this. Am I just crazy... don't answer that one, I know the answer already!
Love,
Sue xxx
Despite this and my huge desire to have a family, we stayed together, with me never fully believing in his infertility, always believing there would be something around the corner with Medical Science, to enable us to have our family.
Wow and behold... a good many years later, ICSI was discovered, along with the fact that men with CF do produce sperm, but just can't get it out due to their missing tubing - hence the discovery of Surgical Sperm Retrieval and 16 years after meeting, the birth of our gorgeous son, Iestyn on our 6th ICSI attempt.
Well since then, my desire to have more children has overwhelmed me. We don't have anymore sperm in the freezer, so Dh would require another SSR for us to be able to have anymore.
That option is not feasible at the moment, due to health complications, which we are trying to get stabalised. However, we have always both lived in hope that one day, SSR's and ICSI would not be necessary because someone would find a way of inserting a replacement bit of tubing, to allow the sperm to come out the fun way (hmmm, never had the excitement of
wondering if that could lead to a pregnancy - that would be nice and give a whole new feeling to ).It seems crazy that this has not yet been done (or certainly not that we know of), when they have been doing vasectomy reversals for years... OK, I know the tubing is already there for that, but still it is dealing with such micro tubing.
Does anyone else ever live in hope that this could be pioneered in the near future. It is something that we would actually travel the world to have done, if it were at all possible.
The thing is, I'm not sure that it's even being looked into, as I've never read anything about such research... so I think I am clutching at straws and have loads of wishful thinking.
Anyway, just wanting to get that rambling down and wondered what anyones thoughts are on this. Am I just crazy... don't answer that one, I know the answer already!
Love,
Sue xxx
