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wildcatj said:
Ok, this is a serious question. Anyone considered selling their eggs to offset costs of vet school?
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Yes, but only as serious as I can get without knowing anything about it. My parents wouldn't let me sell plasma though, so I doubt this will be allowed. 24 and letting my parents dictate things. 🙄 I guess that's what happens when they own you via funds for vet school. 😉
 
dyachei said:
things can wrong with that and the pay is often not worth it for the medical issues they cause (or so it was explained to me).
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Yeah, that's what I'm reading about now...
 
that redhead said:
I don't have a cat, but I've heard about this way too many times from my friends with cats :laugh:
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👍 Last night my little guy was in a fight with his tail for a solid hour at the end of my bed. I eventually had to take his collar off so that I at least didn't have to hear the jingling.
 
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wildcatj said:
Ok, this is a serious question. Anyone considered selling their eggs to offset costs of vet school?
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Pretty sure you have to have like zero health problems if you want to actually get decent money. And then your on IVF treatments for like a year...Ifmit was easier, I'd probably consider it, but I'm kind of paranoid that I'd sell my eggs and then not have enough to have my own kids...although, with the debt it might be the better choice. 🙁
 
orca2011 said:
Pretty sure you have to have like zero health problems if you want to actually get decent money. And then your on IVF treatments for like a year...Ifmit was easier, I'd probably consider it, but I'm kind of paranoid that I'd sell my eggs and then not have enough to have my own kids...although, with the debt it might be the better choice. 🙁
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What I was reading it sounded like they did genetic testing for anything they would suspect you could have or the recipient would be concerned about. Plus regular disease business. And you only have to do injections for 3 weeks, otherwise you're just on birth control to regulate your cycle. But there is definitely a chance for serious risks. Even if they are very rare I'm not sure I'd want to risk it. Definitely something to contemplate though.
 
wildcatj said:
What I was reading it sounded like they did genetic testing for anything they would suspect you could have or the recipient would be concerned about. Plus regular disease business. And you only have to do injections for 3 weeks, otherwise you're just on birth control to regulate your cycle. But there is definitely a chance for serious risks. Even if they are very rare I'm not sure I'd want to risk it. Definitely something to contemplate though.
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Only 3 weeks? I thought it said it was for a year...hmmm. probably wouldn't go through with it though.
 
orca2011 said:
Only 3 weeks? I thought it said it was for a year...hmmm. probably wouldn't go through with it though.
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I guess you have to "devote" 6 months to it so they can get you matched with someone and everything squared away, but they actual egg making/harvesting process is only 3 weeks.
 
dyachei said:
Guys, profanity isn't allowed even in memes. Those of you that have posted/quoted them, please remove the profanity or the meme.
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😱 Sorry! I didn't even realize it was in there until you pointed it out.

I am ashamed. 🙁
 
Eyebrows.... They make a difference....

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Sorry about that Dyachei.

As for selling my eggs...I feel weird about having my genes out there without me knowing what's happening to them. I guess I feel responsible for them and it just kind of weirds me out :\
 
wildcatj said:
Ok, this is a serious question. Anyone considered selling their eggs to offset costs of vet school?
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haha I totally would. I don't really want them, but I'm selfish enough to want part of myself to live on through future generations 🙄. But I have an autoimmune disease that may or may not be genetic in origin, so I think that would disqualify me. My guess is that the history of congenital aneurysm in my family that is likely genetically based would probably be a bit of a red flag too. Unfortunately, I won't know if I have it unless, you know, it bursts and I have a hemorrhagic stroke. It usually goes in your twenties though, so I guess I'll have a good idea in the next few years. At least if I die young I won't have to pay off my student loans... although my grandmother didn't have her stroke until she was 70, so you never know.
 
dovelover said:
haha I totally would. I don't really want them, but I'm selfish enough to want part of myself to live on through future generations 🙄. But I have an autoimmune disease that may or may not be genetic in origin, so I think that would disqualify me. My guess is that the history of congenital aneurysm in my family that is likely genetically based would probably be a bit of a red flag too. Unfortunately, I won't know if I have it unless, you know, it bursts and I have a hemorrhagic stroke. It usually goes in your twenties though, so I guess I'll have a good idea in the next few years. At least if I die young I won't have to pay off my student loans... although my grandmother didn't have her stroke until she was 70, so you never know.
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This entire post is so saaaaad 🙁
 
Kpowell14 said:
This entire post is so saaaaad 🙁
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Sorry. I was going a bit more for flippant. Maybe I should have put in more silly smilies. :shrug:

If it makes you feel better, my autoimmune disease really isn't all that serious. The hormone supplements don't work nearly as well as the doctors like to think they do and the blood tests seem to be meaningless in terms of conveying how well the artificial hormones actually work (people have written entire books on the rather common phenomenon of having normal blood tests but no improvement in symptoms :bang:), but it's not going to kill me or anything. Just makes it virtually impossible to lose weight and makes me extra prone to lethargy and depression. And still an egg donor disqualifier. And a plasma donor disqualifier, most likely. And honestly, the chances that I have weak arterial junctions in my circle of willis like my grandmother had is really not all that high. I can't say exactly what they are since no one knows anything anything about the genes involved, but it's not like every woman in my family died from an aneurysm, so not a high probability. And my grandmother made a more or less full recovery from hers, against something like 1 in a million odds, so at least there's that happy ending. And ten years later when all the resulting scar tissue contributed to her dementia, the neurologist said she was the highest functioning patient with that many holes in her brain that he'd ever seen. So hopefully I inherited her awesome toughness and ability to survive pretty much anything, too. 😉
 
Anyone follow the Iditarod at all? Its running right now.:woot:
 
Sitting outside lecture hall because prof. announced half an hour before lecture that lecture was cancelled so I'm just super early for lab. Some guy asked me to watch his stuff while he went to the bathroom and then offered me a piece of his pizza.
Though it is fun watching so many people walk into an empty lecture hall and then come back out and read the sign on the door and walk away.
 
Does it bother anyone else when "Asian recipes" call for using olive oil as the only/primary fat?
 
Going to go home after class and chop off my hair. It's getting way too long.
 
wildcatj said:
Going to go home after class and chop off my hair. It's getting way too long.
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I did this about a month ago. I cut off about 10 inches so that I could donate it. Feels so much better short!
 
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