Sometimes when
people display their love for others, one may be tempted to ask if it’s a movie
or a dream. Some stories sound really unbelievable and simply like fairy tales until you wake up to reality that it’s
not just a dream but as real as the pain you would feel if you pinched
yourself.
The case of Lolita Wasterlund, one of the few people in
the world to have a uterine transplant is like one of such tales. She was lucky
to have her sister donate her uterus for the procedure thereby making it the
first and only time this has happened between siblings.
According to details
from BBC, Lolita was born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome which
meant she had only one kidney, a shortened vagina and no uterus making it
difficult to carry a baby.
In a chat with Sarah
Brett and Nihal Arthanayake on BBC Radio 5 live, she said it was "really
hard" because "she always wanted a baby" and "always wanted
to be a mother".
This would give
some sort of hope to many who have the same medical issues like Lolita hence
more enquiries should be made for all those who are interested.
The way medicine
and technology is going, it would not be surprising to see the huge number of
couples who are struggling with infertility decline drastically given the so
many options springing up by the day.
Nevertheless, it
is pertinent that before embarking on the options available, it would do a lot
of good to check out the risks involved even as Doctors from the University of
Gothenburg who performed the surgery on Lolita noted that the procedure is seen as particularly risky when there is a
living donor.
Lolita's sister
Linda said she only felt scared after the surgery adding that "when Lolita
had got my womb then I got scared. I was thinking what would happen if it
didn't work and I've put false hope into my sister's mind". However the
good news at the end of the day is that the family was elated when Lolita gave
birth to a son Cash-Douglas in June 2015.
Now that kind of love is truely like fairytale.
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