Testimonial - Christy

I remember walking in your door October of 2000 as a single woman in pain having gone through two laparoscopic surgeries and two Lupron series and endometriosis still running rampid in my body. I had been told that if I wanted to have children it needed to be within the next 3 to 6 months. I was devastated; no part of my life was ready for a child. I was 28, no husband (not even a boyfriend at the time), no home, no savings; I wanted to follow my faith and wait to have children until I was married. I love children, I had been a Sunday School teacher since I was a senior in high school, and was at the time coordinating kids club at a Christian store and volunteering for story time. In addition to Sunday school I work with and teach children’s church. I tell you this only to emphasize my love for children. I have always wanted to be a wife and mother. It seemed so cruel that women that would leave their children in a dumpster or harm them could so easily give birth and I couldn’t. Your practice gave me hope for the future. Giving hope to someone is giving them strength to take another step, the energy to endure, and joy to get through the next hurdle. Giving me hope was amazing enough but you also worked with me to manage my pain. The pain with polycystic ovaries and endometriosis can be debilitating and as it keeps coming time and time again, it can drain you of all your energy and effect you mentally. Obviously with PSO cyst are common place and endometriosis grows like a vine within your body and the consistency of pain and reoccurrence or cyst, fibroids, polyps, etc. can be overwhelming; but you were always there. Your staff consoled me, and gave me options specific to my situation. I can remember crying after an ultrasound that reveled a large cyst and being hugged by a nurse who felt my emotional pain and knew my physical pain, I remember a surgery when I was particular nervous and fell asleep looking up at a smiling nurse holding my hand. I have never been a number, chart, or a file, I am always greeted with a smile, tenderness and known by name. Everyone is comforting and listens to fears, concerns, general life complaints, and hopes. If it wasn’t enough that you and your staff gave me hope, support, and treatment, but you even went as far as help with finances. Thank you to your “pit bulls” for finance and fighting the good fight with my insurance carrier. I know the hours logged in to get the surgeries and treatments approved where long and tenacious. You were respectful of my body and pain during ultrasounds and exams. Always timely to respond to my needs. After years of treatment I am now sitting here typing this while looking at my son, he’s taking a nap. He is an angel, a blessing, a gift, and a miracle. It’s April of 2004 and my son is six weeks old. He smiles and my heart jumps; it was all worth it. My heart literally overflows with love and amazement at his coos and grunts. He has his father’s hair color, ears, and chin. He has my eyes, mouth and nose. I never thought I would be able to say that…”My child has my…”. He is mine; I created him (well with the help of a few nurses, a doctor, laboratory scientist and a partridge in a pear tree). You were able to calm my fears about the fertility injections, called me consistently to update me on lab results and outlined my next steps, worked with my history to insure I was on the right medications and dosage providing me with a detailed calendar and plan to increase my success rate to create viable eggs, become pregnant and carry to term. With all my previous complications, and current conditions, I was a difficult and complicated candidate but the extra work put into my case was done effortlessly, carefully, and compassionately by everyone. I remember many times sitting in your office and watching you hover over the babies, take turns holding them, and taking a picture for the wall of births. I couldn’t believe how you all were so excited for the couples; like special aunts and uncles. You take such joy in a positive pregnancy result and the birth of all those miracles. My heart would ache for my turn. Now our family picture is up on that wall, thanks to you…all of you. Even during the pregnancy and now after the pregnancy you offer emotional support. You are an amazing group. I am proud to call you my extended family. I never really thought a lot about what the word neighbors meant in “Love thy neighbor as thyself” but now after being your patient and knowing you, I realize that neighbor isn’t the person next door, it’s everyone you meet; you have treated me with such care and love; you have treated me as a neighbor. Thank you.

I know God is at work in your practice, I’ve seen it first hand. I pray he continues to bless you and your patients.

All Our Love,

Christy and Family

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