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I first decided to become a donor many years ago when I first heard how the procedure was changing lives and giving many the opportunity of hope. I procrastinated for a while and never really got around to doing it. However the shoe dropped for me when, while in the hospital for emergency stitches I met a woman who had just had her third miscarriage, which was the unfortunate result of her third donor attempt. She was heartbroken but not beaten. As we were wrapping up our conversation she smiled at me and said she would try again, in fact she would do it as many times as she needed to.
The next day one of my best friends called me and told me she was pregnant. She was 21 at the time and devastated as she figured she was not ready for a child, and contemplating abortion. She was a party girl who smoked 20 cigarettes a day and had drank every day. I remembered the lady I had met yesterday who was a vegetarian who only drank a glass of champagne at weddings yet she was the one with unhealthy ovaries! How truly unfair life can sometimes be; one desperately wanting what the other thought to be a misfortune, and I immediately contacted Renew.
I have never needed any convincing nor did I ask for anyone’s opinions. I believe in giving and not just to receive, it is human to give when you have what others don’t. In closing I would like to add that one of the main purposes for writing this story is to inform many potential donors out there, that there are many of us who do not do this for the money. Sure it pays but not really in cash, because by the end of your experience, when you looking at the hand writing of the couple you potentially gave a child to, and read how they try express a type of gratitude, you simply can’t explain you will realize that you would have probably done it for nothing.
My last words with you are quoted from my favorite writer, taken from his book called ‘The Prophet,’ this is what Kahlil Gibran wrote on giving:
“You give but little when you give of your possessions, it is only when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear that you may need them tomorrow….. And what is fear of need but a need itself? Is not dread of thirst when your well is full the thirst that is unquenchable?...”
So I would encourage all who can to donate, and truly give of yourselves.
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