You maybe didn’t know this because why would you? but there’s a virus called CMV that infects 85% of adults. It doesn’t do anything; it just sits there being herpes’ harmless second cousin forever BUT, if you’re a woman using donor sperm AND you’re CMV-negative, you can’t use a CMV-positive donor because of risk to the baby.
I’m negative. Goodbye, 85% of donors! Goodbye, Mr. Sensitive Multiracial#2882! Goodbye, gay rower (who claims to be straight after all)! My choices have narrowed and narrowed again — no blondes; no hunters; no undergraduates — so I’m zeroing in on “Saul,” a CMV-neg Jewish doctor. Great save! I am made entirely of win: Despite the lesbian/late-bloomer/downwardly-mobile factors at play here, I can still have a baby with a Jewish doctor!
And Saul is…so Jewish. He has mold allergies and a 4.66 valedictory GPA and a mother he describes as “a nightmare.” He’s a nebbish like you’ve never seen. I will call the baby “Kreplach Punim.”
This is quite serendipitous, because I was raised in a Jewish neighborhood with Jewish friends and thus developed a Jewish soul. If I had long-term amnesia and didn’t remember anything about myself, I’d worry that I’d missed too many Hadassah meetings during my fugue state. I can Baruch atah Adonai elohaynu melech ha’olam well enough to make Saul’s mother proud, even though she’s probably more appalled by sperm donation than by Jews For Jesus.
I wonder if she knows that Saul is on sale. A twofer deal. I can buy four vials for less than what it cost to fix the weird idling noise my car made last spring. The mind reels.
Coming Up Next: What Happens If I Have A Boy?
I learn something new every day! I had heard that 85% of us are infected with a benign virus, and that scientists were even trying to find a way to use it to our benefit, but was unaware of the possible consequences to the other 15%.
At least you did find a possible donor. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you!
Thanks! 🙂
I just have to ask; why is a doctor donating/selling sperm?
Honji – He wants a part of himself to live on and has yet to find a mate? Likely has something to do with having “a nightmare” for a mother.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but the sale ends on Monday. Hazeleyed, I’m sending you a link to his profile for your opinion…
He’s probably got $150,000 in student loans to pay off…he’s only 26.
Or that. :)-