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Hello My name is Kara and I have two beautiful almost 4 year old girls. My journey to get my girls started in 2005 when I was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer. My husband and I where searching for a doctor who was performing the pre-genetic diagnostic testing. I am a carrier of Fragile X Syndrome.
We found Dr. Silber had a consultation scheduled and then had to cancel due to the Ovarian cancer Diagnosis. I was determined to beat the cancer and have my girls. So in 2007 I called the office and made my first appointment, not knowing for sure whether my remaining ovary even still worked or not. I went through a series of ultrasounds and even a CT scan to make sure everything was okay. By November of 2007 I was giving myself hormone injections and praying it would work. By December 26th I had a positive pregnancy test. Oh my that was exciting! We even had 2 babies on ultrasound. On August 20th I had a c-section and delivered my 2 beautiful girls.
Thanks to Dr. Silber and Dr. Pineda. They made my dream come true.
Infertile patients cannot afford to wait for treatment while their eggs get older.
Dr. Sherman Silber, Infertility Center of St. Louis, is offering video consultations for patients who need to plan now for their treatment while stay-at-home orders are in place. He is talking to and evaluating patients in their home to comply with social distancing measures.
Dr. Silber is discovering that patients actually prefer this method of telemedicine consultation over the conventional office visit. Patients have conveyed that “it is so much more convenient and less stressful” to have a telemedicine personal consultation than to take a day off from work to travel to the doctor’s office and sit with other nervous patients in the waiting room.
The COVID-19 pandemic is thus changing much of the way we will do things in the future, and for the better. “Our patients are surprisingly much happier with this approach. Of course, at some point we need to perform hands on treatment. But with this new manner of seeing patients, we can come to the right diagnosis and treatment plan for most patients more efficiently, quickly, and painlessly, with no loss of personal one-on-one communication.” This is a very welcome new era of telemedicine that has been forced on us by the current difficult times.
