Couple in Melbourne seeking help

[Kelsey]

We are a very close couple who have been together since 2001. We live in Melbourne, and have been trying to conceive without success for the past 4 years. Our Doctor has advised our only chance is donor eggs. We have both taken the time to digest and understand this, and we feel very excited with the hope this option gives us. If you are under 36 and have completed your family, we would love to hear from you. All medical and travel would be reimbursed. Our contact details are leanne-michael@hotmail.com (leanne-michael@hotmail.com)
or you can write to us, Leanne and Michael, PO Box 126, Kingsville 3012
The advertisement has been approved by the Victorian Minister for Health, as required by s.40 of the Human Tissue Act 1982 (Vic) (July 2007) If you are reading this, thankyou for taking the time. Because we live in Victoria we had to obtain approval to advertise - there is so much more we could tell you about ourselves than our formal ad above. So if you would like to explore the idea of helping us please email or pm, or shout out and we'd truly love to hear from you.

Thanks
Leanne and Michael

[Bobbin]

Good luck Leanne & Michael.

Fingers crossed and hope you find someone to help you very soon. :fingerscrossed:

regards

Robyn

[Roxy]

Hi Leanne..

Good to see you here!

I hope that you find your angel soon - maybe bringing over that wonderful story of you guys from AED will help you find your perfect match....

[Bobbin]

Morning Leanne,

Hoping you have had some success in findind a donor.

Best
regards
Robyn

[pisces00]

I cannot donate to you, but can give you some tips about hopefully finding a donor....

Place a medium home made sign anywhere that women are - noticeboards at your gym, kindagardens, cafes, hairdressers - just list your email address - get as many people to see it as possible - it will get women thinking and talking or even passing on your ad to someone who could help

Contact your local Uni paper or put up an ad on the noticeboard - the need for young eggs and a mature, open outlook will be amongst someone that goes there.

Dont be shy - i know its not a topic that you want on the front of todays newspaper but word of mouth is very powerful and that is how i found at least 4 of my recipients.

Do you have friends/family in other states? Can they prehaps put up a few ads for you? Your future donor doesnt nesscessarily live in your state.

I am in Vic and would love to help in any other way, just pm me:wave: :wave:

[Kelsey]

Thanks Robyn, Roxy and Pisces
Much appreciated,
Leanne

[Bobbin]

:wave: hoping you have had some luck

regards
Robyn

[Bobbin]

:wave: Hi Leanne,

My Ed's appointment has been brought forward, so we will soon know if we can go ahead definitely whoo hoo. Hope you have some lovely angel contact you.

regards
Robyn

[Kelsey]

Hi Robyn,
Thats great news the appointment has been brought forward. Here's to a great outcome !
No news here... we still wait, and hope.
Thanks for dropping by,
Leanne

[Bobbin]

:babydust2: some angel dust headed your way.

[Bobbin]

Hi Leanne,

Just wondering if you have had any luck, I know it's a very emotional journey.

Wishing you every success in finding your angel.

regards
Robyn

[Kelsey]

Still here Robyn,
We keep telling ourselves the right person is out there, we still believe it will happen, perhaps the planets need to be aligned or something :-)
Thanks for your support,
Leanne

[mumanddadwannabes]

:wave: Hope you find that egg donor you are looking for soon. Here is some fairy dust :wizard: to help the angels find you.
Good luck.
Jan

[Kelsey]

Belated thanks for your good wishes Jan,
Much appreciated,
Your support does not go unnoticed !
Leanne (from AED)

[mumanddadwannabes]

:wave: Ha ha, though it was you. It is an easy enough thing to do to support each other through this rather emotional time. Firm believer in what goes around comes around and I have made so many friends on this journey that I have become a little addicted to finding out how everyone is getting on. :yes: :yes:
Good that you are on both sites as this will increase your chances of finding that angel. Until then some :wizard: :wizard: to help you on your way.
Take care
Jan :wave:

[TracyL]

Hi Kelsey, good luck with your dream. I'm in the same position as you, living in Melbourne and looking for a donor. I had my add approved but then thought, after I posted it, why can't I just add a lot more information as 'further reading' after the add, so that's what I did. After all people can post on your thread and ask for further information so why not just pre-empt this by providing the information up front. You can have a look at my thread, 'Wishing on a Star' if you like to get the idea. So apart from that keep dreaming and it will happen (well that's what I'm hoping for anyway):hugs:

[Kelsey]

Hi Tracy,
Good to see you have posted your ad here.
Yes I do know what you mean, I initially posted our whole ad from AED here, but this is an open forum and I don't like the idea of being too personal as who knows who is reading. So I actually took it out after a few days as it didn't feel right.
As it is we have had numerous contacts from the States and Canada by posting here - would rather tell more about us here if someone genuine contacts us. Does that make sense ?
Anyway, thanks for your good wishes,
Leanne

[TracyL]

Hi Kelsey, no problems and good luck to you, hope your weekend was nice and relaxing. Take care and keep dreaming.:wizard:

[Roxy]

I do believe that Kelsey has good news! ;)

[EsSjAy]

Looking forward to hearing good news...
All the best... My heart goes out to you...
x x:hugs::hugs::hugs::hugs::hugs:

[mumanddadwannabes]

:wave: Looks like someone is trying to tell us something. Hope you have found a potential angel? Wouldn't that be just the most exciting news.
Good luck.
Jan :fingerscrossed:

[Kelsey]

Hello,
Yes, we have found a wonderful donor, and we are so very happy right now :)
Thank you so much to everyone who posted messages of support and personal messages, it was much appreciated.
I wish those of you still searching all the very best.
Leanne

[TracyL]

Hi there, came over to check on things to find you had great news, that's fantastic. Big congratulations to you.:thumbsup:

[Kelsey]

Hello, It has been a while since I have posted.

Unfortunately our donor has decided she no longer wishes to continue down the road as a donor.

Needless to say we are quite shattered.

So we now find ourselves out there yet again asking some very special person to help us.

If at all possible the desire is now even stronger for both of us, as we allowed ourselves to dream, the doctor gave us hope, we had that word called optimism, and it felt really really good.

But maybe things happen for a reason. Maybe the right person is out there reading this now.
We'd love to hear from you

Leanne and Michael

[amumslove]

:babydust2:I'm so sorry to hear that Leanne, I hope your :angel: finds you soon.:babydust2:
Bev

[rachwantsababy]

Kelsey,

I am so sorry to hear your news. I am sure your donor :angel: is going to find you soon. I know how frustrating it is, I thank god every day for having a best friend who is helping us, without her I would be lost.

I wish you all the very best of luck. Your donor will come to you, I will be sending lots of good wishes your way.

xx

[kandd]

Hi Kelsey,

I understand the mixed emotions that you are going thru. We started the donor process with a lady that decided not to proceed. After all the excitement of actually getting somewhere the pain of being let down is huge.

The way I saw it was that if she wasn't 100% committed than it was a good thing that we didn't proceed. The good news is that we found our donor Sarah soon after. It was like it was meant to be. For so many reasons I am glad that things happened the way they did.

Hang in there. I hope that one day soon you too will look back at this time and understand why it just wasn't quite right.

:fingerscrossed: your true donor :angel: won't be to far away.

Diana xx

[Kelsey]

Thanks for your good wishes Bev, Rach and Diana,

Diana I totally understand what you are saying. We did spend a couple of days grieving the emotional (as well as financial, especially given it was interstate) loss but yes, it wasn't meant to be.

I think part of the sadness was that feeling of the joy and hopefullness being taken away so suddenly, but we look forward to experiencing that again, with the right person.

Much appreciated,
Leanne

[petalynn]

HI Leanne,

I am very sorry to hear about your donor changing her mind.

I hope you find your :angel: soon and you get to realize your dream.

Take care:wave:
Peta

[Kelsey]

Thanks for your good wishes Peta,

It's been a really tough time, and both of us still haven't come to terms with the devastation we are feeling. Given our donor's religious beliefs she probably should never have even considered what she offered. Between the emotional, and financial loss, I can't help but feel anger. It goes away, then comes back in waves.

I know it is time, and it will pass. We just have to try to look forward.

I do feel worried for the future, whilst we so wish someone would come forward to help us, I don't know how I'd cope if the same thing happened.

The hardest thing is wearing a mask in the outside world, nobody knows how much you are hurting inside.

Well that's where we are at... trying very hard not to be bah-humbug :xmas: sorry for the rant !

Bye for now,
Leanne

[baby4me]

Hi Leanne

I just wanted to wish you all the best in your search for your very own special donor angel. I definitely know what it is like to wear a mask in front of the outside world but I would like to think that there is a beautiful donor angel for all of us just a flutter away.

Try to stay positive (I know it is hard)....:flowerz:

[amumslove]

Hi Leanne, I just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Sending :babydust2::goodvibes::wizard: your way so your true:angel: can find you.

:noel:Bev

[Kelsey]

Thanks for dropping by Baby4Me and Bev.

We are doing alot better now, and as time goes on the anger has settled. As DP says, we have had a 'dry run' and we know what to expect, and we know what we'd ask up front now of any potential donors. We are just impatient and can't wait to meet the right one :)

Christmas is keeping us really busy. Like many of us in this 'waiting room' I guess we look forward to this time next year, and hope and wonder what might be. I truly hope we'll be in that place we want to be !

Bye,
Leanne

[Kelsey]

Just giving ourselves a New Years Bump

Happy New Year to all. Fingers crossed 2008 is the year for those of us waiting.

Leanne

[baby4me]

Hi Leanne

Hope you have a great New Year.

I think that lots of donor:angel:angels will be making an appearance in 2008.

Have a good one.

[PebblesNZ]

Hi Leanne :wave: I'm sure that 2008 is going to be a better year for us all :sunshine: Keeping everything crossed for you hun that your :angel: is not too far away, hugs, Elley

[Kelsey]

I'm very happy to say we have met our wonderful donor and are off the starting blocks :yelclap:

Michael and I are so happy to have made this connection, it feels very right this time, we are overjoyed to have the help of a wonderful lady and her equally lovely husband who is really supportive of her doing it.

Our donor found us here on bubhub. I hope that gives those of you still waiting hope that the right person is out there for all of us.

To those who posted messages of support - a huge thankyou. To those who emailed us and chatted to us, exploring the idea - a huge thankyou.

And to Bubhub - a very big YAY for making us so happy :smiliedance:

Leanne

[xkwzit]

Now that Leanne has found her donor, I'll close this thread with our congratulations and best wishes for the road ahead.

I hope that you will keep us updated on your journey from time to time, feel free to start a thread in the Egg Donation Issues area. It helps us all to understand a little more about egg donation and what it means to you.

Cheers