Antonella alone is the definition of self-giving.
Blood, platelets, mother's milk, bone marrow… Anything that Angevine can give “to help”, she gives.
So when she saw the "distress" of women who often wait years for the gametes allowing them to have a child and the appeals for donations from associations, the idea of offering her reproductive cells did not take very long to emerge. germinate.
“June 4, 2021, the machine is on and I can't wait to know if I can donate!
In the corner of her laptop, Antonella carefully recorded, like a diary, each step of her gamete donation project.
A real obstacle course that took eight months to see the light of day, from the first contact with a Cécos in February 2021, to the collection of oocytes in October of the same year.
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Three weeks before the surgical oocyte collection: ultrasound checks "every 48 hours", blood tests and daily injections to stimulate the cells have shaken up the agenda of this mother.
"It's taking," she grants.
“But it's done.
Especially over three weeks, when you consider that those who receive the donation have already been waiting for several years.
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