Once there was a fix for Maries genetic abnormality, was the process of getting pregnant easy?
Well, no, it wasn’t that easy, because part of her problem is her ovary has a lot of eggs that are missing X chromosomes. That had a lot of impact on her fertility. In fact, it made her infertile in the standard way, the natural way. Even with IVF, it limited our ability to be successful. In fact, the first time we were successful, it was touch and go in terms of the stimulation and number of eggs we were able to get, but we were fortunate and things worked out. As we tried the second time, there were several attempts and Marie was not responding well, which is in direct correlation to the genetic defect that she has and her ovaries are really petering out so to speak, because of this genetic defect. I even actually said to her, “You know Marie, we should stop trying ’cause I don’t think this is going to work.” But it is always where the patient sometimes has [more] wisdom that then doctor. She didn’t want to stop and we had lots of talks about this … she wanted to proceed … I gave
