Let me introduce myself.
My name is Lee Persson, I’m a Swedish young woman at the age of 29.
I’ve been living on Koh Phangan on and off 3 times. I started backpacking in 2009 and I ended my trip with a visit at Koh Phangan 2010 when I was doing Yoga.
Of course I fell in love with the beautiful island and the only thing I wanted was to go back.
I returned in January 2013 and in October I decided that it was time for me to become a full time local in the Sri Thanu area.
I went home to Malmö, Sweden and I sold everything I had, took the little thing I had and moved to Koh Phangan for good. Or so I thought....
Now I’m in the progress of moving from Thailand to Mexico. Another big step in life.
Follow me on my journey trough something we call living the life to the fullest.
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Egg donation number 3.
I did some writing about my egg donation before and I will do it again. Since the last time I wrote about it, a lot of things have happened. There are 2 links to listen to (but it is in Swedish) from the Swedish Radio.
I made my first egg donation in Cancun, Mexico August 2013. Since I am anonymous, every little contact or what so ever, needs to go through the clinic. The only thing I asked for when I made my donation was a photo of “the result”. Since it is my genes, I am curious how the child is going to look like. Maybe it’s a female thing to wonder, are my genes that good? Am I going to have a cute child etc. etc. And for my own future children, I now have an idea of how the child/children are going to look like. It brings up many weird feelings inside of you.
And specially for a woman, with our crazy female hormones.
I never got a respond from the first donation I made. I asked the clinic, but apparently they never heard from the parents again after they got the eggs from me. Or that’s what they say anyway. When I made my second donation in January 2014 things changed. I noticed a change in myself from the hormone treatment I was doing. It is a big thing for the female body. For guys it’s a bit easier, but they don’t really get paid that much as a woman do. But on the other hand, they don’t really have to do much more than pleasure themselves.
I asked the same thing after my second donation. A photo.
When I was home in Sweden on October 4, the woman at the clinic sends me 2 pictures on Facebook and writes; “Guess who”. I was sitting at my kitchen table with couple of friends. My heart just literally stops. Time freezes and I’m a bit in shock. What I see in front of me is 2 pictures of a newborn baby. I’m starting to count the months…. 9 months from January equals October.
So, that means that this is 50 % of me and 50 % of one of the fathers. (Yes, I donated to a homosexual couple) So, this means that it’s my baby.
What a weird feeling. But it was an amazing thing to receive at the same time. I still haven’t made a choice of how I feel about it. I have the “result” of my egg donation and I could see a picture with my own eyes how beautiful he actually is. They were triplets in the beginning, but the surrogate mother had complications and her body could not carry all of them so 2 of them were lost (miscarriage). But there was one great survivor. His name is Luca and he was born on October 4, 2014 in Tabasco, Mexico. It was a great thing to receive even if it feels weird. And it gets even weirder.
Just couple of days after I received the photos, I went to my Instagram. There was one guy that follows me on Instagram and once in a while comes in and likes my pictures like any other random instagrammer. A very good looking American/Brazilian pilot. I automatically clicked on his profile and the first picture I see is the same picture that I got sent to me by the woman at the clinic. I froze again. Wait. What? No! Really? So you are saying…. Yes, the guy on Instagram is the father of the baby. (the other half)
I had no idea who this guy was but apparently he knew who I was the whole time. And now we actually have a child together. Without having sex, It is a bit weird when you think about it. But it is also an amazing thing what we did. To create a life is amazing, even if this child is not mine and I have not carried it for 9 month in my belly. But the DNA shows that it actually is.
The surrogate mother is not the mother either, she is just a “carrier”. But more connected than me I guess.
He still has half of my genes, personality and looks. So, in my head there are questions like; what do you tell your child when he/she grows up? It is just one example. When I think about today’s technology of what is possible to create, it’s amazing how far we have reached development and technology. How we literally can “special design” our own child.
Back to social media. Social media is something that scares me today. Even if I am fully into it with facebook, instagram and my blog, people judge very easy because they don’t know better of what is happening. So we all have to be careful of what we post today. But at the same time it’s pretty awesome. How much knowledge we can get, how much information we can receive and how much we can learn by just looking at a screen.
When I received the picture of the baby (Luca), something inside of me and my hormonal woman state of mind was telling me, Maybe I should have contact with them?
The woman at the clinic have asked me before but I said that it was too much for me. And since they are not allowed to contact me, I never heard anything again. Now when the worst shock is over and I have seen the child, maybe I might just have contact with them as they have asked for. I agreed to it, and I sent the father a message after I found him on my Instagram. We chatted a little while, and we are now facebook friends. He seems like a very good human being and we have a lot of things in common.
And I am happy that I helped to create a life, helped a family to fulfil their dream and I didn’t even have to get fat and suffer for 9 months. High five to me!
November 2014 I did it again. I threw myself back into hormonal medication for 10 days right away. My first stop after the airport was the clinic. Then back to Isla Mujeres. (25 min away)
This time wasn’t as easy as the first 2 times. I noticed more mood change than the other times. But I observed it and I got to know myself a little better.
And what the doctor also noticed was a cyst. Before I left Sweden, I went to the doctor several times because I felt something was wrong but as usual the Doctors in Sweden never find anything wrong with me. The doctor here in Mexico found the cyst in a matter of 30 seconds. Which makes me really upset with Sweden. Since they cannot work with me here if I have a cyst, they needed to put me to sleep to be able to puncture it so I could continue with the hormonal treatment.
They punctured it so it is not able to take up the medicine and it’s just the liquid that they empty. After that I could continue with my treatment as normal. The eggs are out and now I helped 3 families so far.
I am already booked for my 4th donation, which will be in March this year. Then I’m done donating, and the next baby will be my own! No more experimenting with the body.
Peace and Love to everyone.
To be continued….
Stay tuned for more…. the adventure continues ...
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