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We just wanted to share our story in the hopes that it may bless others. My husband and I married in 1998. We realized we probably would not have children right away because he had had a vasectomy after his second child with his first wife. We were hoping it would fail and we would “accidentally” get pregnant. But after 6 years of marriage we figured that wasn’t going to happen.
So I began researching options for vasectomy reversals. We finally decided on an outpatient procedure that was within our budget. So in 2004 we flew to TX and went through a very unpleasant experience to say the least. To make matters worse, the procedure was unsuccessful. Over the next 8 years we looked into adoption and other options, none of which would work for us for various reasons.
In 2011 I began researching vasectomy reversal again online. That is when we discovered Dr. Silber. We made the arrangements and had the procedure done in 2012. All the staff were very professional and kind. Our experience was thankfully nothing like the first time with the clinic in TX.
We were happy to find out several months later that the procedure was successful. However, after two years I was still not pregnant. We began thinking that maybe I had hormone issues. I was tested and did have some imbalance. I took supplements etc. for over a year and still nothing.
That is when we decided to look into IUI treatments. We arranged to have it done in Costa Rica because of the quality of care and the reduced cost. Praise the Lord we were pregnant after the first treatment. We found out on Thanksgiving Day 2015. It all happened in the Lord’s timing. After 18 years of marriage and lots of prayer, our little Elyana was born. Her name means “the Lord has answered".
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.
