Campaign Story

August 19, 2024, our lives changed. We struggled for 12½ years with “unexplained infertility” and passed from one doctor to another, all suggesting birth control was the answer. That August day, said different.

June 2024, I had gone in to have my tube checked. I had previously lost my left tube to a tubal pregnancy, in 2012. By August, we had that positive we had been dreaming of!

September 18, 2024, I left work early to set off to a doctor’s checkup. I was about 10 minutes away from my destination when I stopped at a stoplight, and our lives change. As I sat there, awaiting a green light, ecstatic about the appointment, a car came barreling up behind me, and slammed into the back of my SUV. The driver kept trying to convince me it was just a fender bender. I was not worried about my car; I was worried about my baby.

I called 911 then my husband. I took an ambulance to the hospital to have baby checked. The guy who rear-ended me, claimed he was fine while stumbling all over and slurring his words. Police did nothing. He didn’t even have accident reports on him.

Upon arriving at the hospital, we heard baby’s heartbeat. There was mild relief, but my heart felt different.

Two days later, at our follow-up, there was no heartbeat. Our dreams, shattered.

Now, here we are, over a year later, case still open, and still no miracle. They placed a measly $25k amount on our baby. Which over HALF will go to the attorney. The rest will go to chiropractic care to finally fix my herniated discs in my neck and back from the accident, since I haven’t been able to work since the accident.

None of this has been fair. It’s been heartbreaking. Life-changing. Devastating.

We are wanting to forward with IUI, since my OBGYN suggested it prior to that pregnancy, if it didn’t happen after I had the FEMVU done. It worked, but now, I’m not getting any younger and worry our time is running out to have a family with my husband.

We will start with IUI. And pray that is all we need. IUI & prayers.