i'm thinking about selling my eggs....

2005-06-08T11:08:00.000-07:00

i suppose i should start at the very beginning.

in september, my parents cut me off. completely. after three years of tuition and rent money, my parents made the decision that they would no longer support me - partially because my dismal 3.0 GPA wasn't high enough, and partially because my mother's menopausal hormonal fluxuations kicked into gear.

so, due to lack of funding, i was forced to withdraw from fall quarter, and instead (unwisely) chose to squander away my time doing nothing with brandon all day, only working the minimum hours i needed to pay my rent.

i applied for financial aid, but because FAFSAs required that i include all of my parents' financial information, i was only offered $2000ish per quarter. seeing as how tuition is about $2300 per quarter, i was left paying the difference in my tuition, books, rent, utilities, and food. winter quarter was tough, to say the least.

this quarter i once again did not have enough money for tuition, making me more of a college dropout than i'd like to admit. i have to reapply for admission to ucla, which shouldn't be a problem, but you never know with the nightmarish uc bureaucracy.

ok, so now for the juicy part:
i want to graduate from college. in fact, i need to graduate from college, because i have my heart set on going to berkeley's post-bacc program in interior architectural design. the number of solutions for my money troubles have been few and far between ... until now.

on a whim i decided to respond to one of those egg donor classified ads in the daily bruin - lo and behold, two of the couples actually want my eggs! i have actually been emailing back and forth with one couple who has expressed great interest in my precious uterian (i know, it's not a word. but how else is there to describe cargo in the uterus?) cargo - their previous donor was another hapa bruin, with whom they had a set of extremely precious twin baby boys (they're now two years old).

i've done some research, and the actual egg-removing procedure itself is only about 30 minutes, and then i'd have to stay in the hospital for 2 hours afterwards until the sedatives wear off.

that doesn't seem so bad, now, does it? yeah, well, here's where the situation gets a little sticky.

i'd have to give myself daily injections (hormone therapy) for 6 weeks leading up to the procedure. the hormones could (and probably will, seeing as how the "dark blue" pills from my ortho tri-cyclin LO birth control pills always make me throw up) cause bloating, nausea, and moodiness. for 6 weeks.

i would also have to undergo "frequent blood test" and "vaginal ultrasounds" to make sure that everything is going as planned. translation: no weed. for 2 months.

i know, it all sounds so terrible now, and you're all probably thinking "why are you even considering this??" ... but wait. here's the clincher:

this is no little $5,000 donation. not only would i be able to pay for school, but i'd be able to pay rent, food, AND pay off all of my credit card debt. (plus, i might even have enough left over to put down a downpayment on that turbo beetle or mini cooper s that i've always wanted. NICE.)

they're willing to pay $30,000, plus they have been asking me about "charitable contributions".

this is where YOU come in.

should i do it??? please. help. if you have ANY information/advice/know somebody who has sold her eggs before, then please please please let me know.

PS i've made it so that ANYBODY can post comments about this. just fyi.

thanks, kids.

PPS i've also decided that if i go through with selling my eggs, i will chronicle it here on this very blog, every step of the way...