Las Vegas is such an impossible, unlikely place, a neon metropolis in the middle of the desert. Equally marvelous and unlikely is the technology that allows me to safely retrieve and freeze my eggs for future use, without a single incision. Because egg freezing only recently lost its \u201cexperimental\u201d\u009d status and the success rates are not as well known as with embryo freezing, I decided to keep my options open and freeze both eggs and embryos. It feels a little bit like I\u2019m living in a science fiction novel.<\/p>\n
Now, a few months post-retrieval, I wonder when and how I will decide to use the eggs I\u2019ve just nourished, protected, collected, and frozen. It\u2019s possible I\u2019ll meet someone and have children the traditional way. It\u2019s possible I\u2019ll marry in time for one child, but need to return to my frozen eggs for a second one. It\u2019s possible I\u2019ll decide to be a single mother, the way my mother was for many years. It\u2019s possible I\u2019ll adopt or decide not to have children at all, and be equally happy. But if I do have a daughter or son some day from the eggs I retrieved, I look forward to telling my child about the unexpected summer night in Vegas when it all started.<\/p>\n