About

I am so lucky, so blessed, so thankful for so many things in my life. I am happily married, I am a healthy (for the most part), I have a wonderful family, job security, and I live in a comfortable home in a town that I love. Talk about blessings! I have overcome many challenges, and my life journey is always full of huge highs and huge lows. With all this perfection, life has to balance out in one way or another, right? My husband and I have been trying to overcome infertility for the past three years.

My name is Crystal (31) and my husband is Gavin (36). We got married in September 2013 – a perfect wedding on a cruise ship, in Hawaii, surrounded by our most favorite family and friends. Truly a perfect wedding – and how many people can actually say that? Even at this time, we thought we have been through the best and the worst of what life had to offer.

In 2012 I was diagnosed with cervical cancer. I was only 28 – super young. In the doctors office we were told that in 2-3 weeks we would be in Vancouver for an unknown exploratory surgery to determine how to proceed – hysterectomy? trachelectomy? chemo/radiation? We just had to wait and find out. This is where I learned the art of patience- it was the scariest time of my life. Thank god, they removed all the cancer. Shortly after, Gavin and I decided that in our hearts we could never again prevent a pregnancy (use protection) since this wonderful opportunity was almost taken away from us forever. We decided together that if it happened we would be so grateful, but we would never prevent again.

Flash forward three more years. We got engaged, we got married. We are happy and we are so in love.

In that time, we have never had a pregnancy – I have never been pregnant. Not even for a second. We have met with doctors, doctors, and more doctors. My numbers aren’t fantastic for my age, and neither are his, but they are not bad enough to prevent a pregnancy or make an official diagnosis. This puts us in the ‘unexplained infertility’ category. Not a fun category to be in, though I suppose there is NO good infertility category to fall into.

We have completed five unmedicated IUI’s – all of which had a negative outcome. We are now embarking on a new adventure – IVF. We are still in the early stages, but already we have faced our challenges and difficulties. Please pray and hope with  us. We want to grow our family more than you can imagine.

**The purpose of this blog is completely personal to me – a way for me to vent and document my journey, rant and rave, and just express through words and pictures. If you happen to know my husband or I, please respect this as a private blog, and please respect our privacy. We do not want our journey gossiped about, pictures shared, or anything negative to come out of this. Infertility is a trial mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally – an outlet and support I think will help.