Brief Intro

Johnny and I have been together since 1998, we were 22 and 18 at the time. We started dating about a month after meeting. It just took one look to change everything, but that’s a whole story for another day.
Johnny proposed on the 13th of June 2001, and we got married on the 13th September 2003. The "proposal" too is a whole fairytale for another day.

As you will get to know me better, you will realise that Johnny and I are so truly blessed to have found each other. We are a perfect match in every sense of the word. We have been through so much that it's a miracle and Gods will that we have made it this far, still married, still very much in love.

J not only is my "Buddy", he is my hubby, my lover, my business partner, my accountant, my boss. He is my big Teddy Bear. Our lives are so complicatedly, intertwined in a perfect pretzel.

When we got married, I was 23 and he 27 at the time. We started TTC right from day 1. My health wasn’t great at the time as I was suffering from recurrent kidney infections. I was admitted in hospital at least twice a month for kidney infections. My GP finally figured out that there must be some anatomical problem with me and we could not really blame it on the "honeymoon" syndrome. The urologist after running a number of tests and x-rays concluded that I was born with a very rare condition. I had an ectopic ureter connected to the left kidney. A whole duplicated kidney system. I underwent a major op on the 19th of May 2004 to remove this duplicated portion and remove any damaged tissue.

It took 3 months to fully recover from the op. The great outcome was that I have never experience a kidney infection since. YAY!!! You won’t believe what a relief this is. No more pain! This gave us the green light to TTC again.

My urologist and GP referred me to DrF to seek fertility treatment, as he had compassion to IF couples due to his own struggle with his wife. In 2005, DrF diagnosed me having stage 2 endometriosis after a laparoscopy.

Johnny and I decided over night to emigrate to Greece for a year and see if we would make it there. After a very eventful year, we returned to South Africa in April 2006, and went straight to DrF for strict fertility treatment. After a few timed medicated cycles, he diagnosed me with a uterine fibroid and performed a myomectomy to remove it August 2006. We went through a few more unsuccessful medicated AI cycles. In 2007, he referred us to Dr VS at Medfem for IVF, as there was nothing more that he could do for us.