After 5 years of dating, we both graduated college and got jobs. Brianna as a Registered Nurse and Thomas as an electrical engineer. In 2012 we got married and bought a new 5 bedroom house, with the dream of filling all those bedrooms with children. Everything was perfect. Just 3 months after being married, Thomas was diagnosed with Stage IV Hodgkins Lymphoma. He went through 6 different chemo’s before needing a stem-cell transplant. We had to live at Duke University for 90 days during that time. Our lives completely changed in just one instant. Since then, it has been a very long and tough road to recovery over the years, and we are ready to realize that dream of having at least one child in one of the bedrooms. There is absolutely nothing we want more. While we have stable work from home jobs, we also have high medical costs each year due to Thomas’ care. So $17,000 for egg retrieval is a considerable cost, and we would be beyond grateful to be blessed with the opportunity to do another round. Thank you so much for what you do and just for your consideration. How we'll use the funds: Another round of egg retrieval, which will cost around $17,000. Insurance paid for two cycles, from which we got one embryo that will give us a 50/50 chance. If we can get just one more embryo it would dramatically increase our chances of pregnancy once, and possibly even two times, which is the ultimate dream.