Campaign Story

My name is Shaeirra Noel. I would like to start a fundraiser because I have had a very deep and complex road to infertility. I am the oldest of identical twins. I was a premature baby weighing 1lb and 2 ounces at birth. With slim odds of even going home at all, my life was very sketchy from the start. I had to have emergency reconstructive bowel surgery at birth. My mom was then informed that I may not make it home. After months of fighting for my life my mom not even being able to hold me, but looking into a incubator and remaining prayerful that if my mother hadn’t given her consent to have the surgery that I would have to wear a colostomy bag for the rest of my life. while remaining hopeful eventually I was able to go home. With a long road of recovery a head of me it was only the being to the road of infertility. In 2008, three days after my high school graduation I went into a local emergency room complaining about constipation, my bowels hadn’t moved in a week. I was given a enema to help resolve the issue. Only to find out that once I finally got the urge to have a bowel movement that an ovarian cyst had ruptured and got into my blood stream . Which led to yet another emergency surgery. Being operated on at seventeen years old since emergency trauma at birth my entire abdomen was completely covered in adhesions and scar tissue. Which made it totally impossible to indentify any of my reproductive organs. Faliure to do so, led to the accidental removal of one of my fallopian tubes. Being so young I had no idea what kind of impact it would have on my future . I repeatedly had operations almost a year to date from 2009 to the very present year September 2022. Ovarian Cysts that were removed had fingers, hair, and sometimes even teeth. I would often think to myself was it a embryo that tried to form? With all the ongoing operations over time the route for the sperm and egg to unite for me to become pregnant naturally has completely vanished. The only way for me to conceive is through IVF. Despite the sorrows of infertility, I managed to meet, fall in love , and marry the love of my life Gerald Noel. Knowing everything from the very beginning, we welcomed the challenge, and he still chose me. Me knowing the severity of my situation its still the one thing that makes our family in complete. Its the one thing in life I have left to experience, motherhood. Although the decision of becoming a mother has been made for me I refuse to give up. A child is the one thing unfortunately I am unable to give my husband I’m willing to pull out every stop to make it a reality for my husband. It makes me feel like less of a women being unable to do so. becoming a mother is what I feel will compete me. I often fall into depression because I have never wanted anything so bad in life. After years of having routine test run MRI, CAT SCAN, ultra sound I have been told that I have perfectly healthy uterus that is fully capable of carrying a baby to full-term. I have constantly been told since I was twenty-two years old that I need a full hysterectomy to put an end to all my reproductive issues. My mother was absolutely not fond of taking away the ability at such a young age. Now being thirty- two I would like to start a family once and for all. I owe this to myself , but unfortunately IFV is a huge investment that we are unable to do alone. I could sleep better at night knowing that when I went down for a full hysterectomy that once my reproductive system was removed my baby was to. I may not be the only women in the world with infertility issues , I would like a better quality of life to be a parent to my unborn . Although this is the hand I was dealt in life I’m determined to look at the bright side of an unfortunate situation. while counting down the days until I get to hold my baby once and for all we are waiting patiently to meet you.

-The Noel’s-