| you've seen hard times before, but nothing like this. | | | | the operation. It's not the interview that bothers you. |
| You've had to sell your car, and use your bike or | | | | You know that you're a healthy, drug-free woman, |
| your legs to get you everywhere. You're two | | | | it's the operation part that scares you, since you've |
| months behind on your rent, and you just got a | | | | heard it's a painful recovery. |
| notice in the mail saying that your electricity will be | | | | There's also the issue of giving away a part of |
| cut off tomorrow unless you pay your bill | | | | yourself to complete strangers. After all, once you |
| immediately. You definitely need more money, and | | | | give up some of your eggs, you won't have any idea |
| soon. | | | | where they're going to go. Someday, any random kid |
| You used to joke about being so broke you might | | | | that you see on the street could be yours. You're |
| have to become an egg donor, but now the | | | | not too sure if you're ready to be completely |
| possibility of it looms in front of you. When you were | | | | detached from such a situation. |
| in college, you lived down the hall from a girl who had | | | | The girl you knew in college had absolutely no plans |
| found herself in a situation much like you find yourself | | | | of ever becoming a mother. She figured that she |
| now. She too was broke, and decided to just go | | | | might as well give her eggs away to someone who'd |
| right ahead and become an egg donor. It was a good | | | | need them. You know that someday, when you've |
| decision for her. She ended up being able to pay her | | | | found the right guy and have a steady job, you'd like |
| rent, and had a little extra until she got a job. | | | | to be a mother. Would you be able to look at your |
| You've seen ads in magazines (you read them at the | | | | children each day and not think about the other |
| library since you're too poor to actually buy one) | | | | children, biologically yours, that might also exist? |
| begging women to come be an egg donor. These | | | | You've come to the conclusion that you're poor, but |
| ads say that you'll be paid thousands of dollars if you | | | | not so poor as to yet give up a part of yourself that |
| give this chance to an infertile couple. It's an | | | | you're saving for your own family. Perhaps it's a |
| interesting thought, being given the opportunity to | | | | selfish decision, but it's the one that you feel the |
| make money and help people at the same time. | | | | best about making. You also have a newfound |
| Then reality sets in. Being an egg donor is one heck | | | | respect for people who do become donors. You |
| of a responsibility. You have to go through a | | | | admire them for having the courage to give their |
| stringent interview process, and then go through a | | | | eggs in support of the best cause of all: Creating life. |
| period of time in which you prepare your body for | | | | |