“Having an egg donor has changed our world in two very profound ways. Firstly it allowed me the chance to conceive for the first time in my life, and take a step closer to our dreams, not just of holding our own baby, but actually having a noisy, maddening, loving, family of our own to care about the rest of our lives together.
Secondly, the fact that this opportunity was given to us by an anonymous, altruistic egg donor makes it the most precious and powerful gift we will ever receive. I don’t think many donor recipients can ever reach the stage of seeking treatment without experiencing quite devastating disappointments over a journey that may have lasted several years. For me this meant that I approached my treatment with a fair degree of fear. My donor’s enthusiasm and bright positivity, her total commitment and unfailing responsibility to the treatment was something that lifted us up through the weeks. The fact that we had to trust a complete stranger implicitly and that she never let us down will have a lasting effect on me, quite beyond any matter of a successful outcome.
Her kind and good actions have affected me deeply and I can quite honestly say that I look at the world around me, and the strangers that I encounter every day, in a quite different light because of what our egg donor has done for us”.
