Where it all began
My husband Jerry and I were married in August of 1995 on a very hot and sticky day. We were ready to take on the world. We would have it all.....love, family....happiness all the way. In the first year, we didn't panic when it seemed that getting pregnant wasn't going to be as easy as our parents led us to believe. We tried a little temperature taking in the morning....counting the days of my cycle....timing whoopie.....we had a few tests, (both of us). What we learned was that we both clearly had issues. These issues weren't going to be anything that we couldn't tackle. Our doctors were confident that we could conceive.....with a "little help". In all actuality, it became a full time job. Twelve months of inseminations....all failed. The next step would be a crazy procedure called ICSI (Intracytoplasmic sperm injection of eggs, & then IVF & embryo transfer to the female is an effective treatment for m...