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Excellent!
Absolutely wonderful!
Wren
That was a lot of fun
It went the way I thought it might, and I think it was well researched and written. Just left me with a lot of 'feel good'. Now, we'll have to wait for the next one.
Portia
nice, happy ending all around
thank you for sharing it.
Uterine transplant
Well, the author got it more right than anyone suspected, I think. From my exposure to the Medical field, I knew it would happen and not in a hundred years but ten or twenty. Well, in the following link, it shows that it has happened!
http://rt.com/news/first-uterus-surgery-success-845/
Nice story
Gwendolyn
Our State Fair - Part 7 of 7: Conclusion
Wonder if Al will find he can father chilren
May Your Light Forever Shine
I was right (that's a first)
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, boom!
Very well written as usual, Karin.
Gripping stuff.
Susie
Great story.
AS usual, Karin has excelled in producing a believable and very readable story with enough mystery to keep us reading to the end.
Interesting about AGM's (Makes me think of Annual General Meetings every time I read it :) ) drug testing procedures that avoided pregnant women (or animals?). The testing of Thalidomide followed a similar path and resulted in many children being born with very short limbs. I'm not very pro-vivisection and think animal testing should very strictly controlled but if it successfully prevents consequences like this story or the Thalidomide scandal in RL then it's justified. Even though I'm a vegetarian I still think people are more important than animals.
Thanks, Karin
Robi
Uterine transplant?
Yikes! I'm surprised they performed that significant of what is essentially elective surgery on an otherwise-healthy 15-year-old girl, especially one with so much other medical weirdness going on. Sibling donor or no, Terry will be on immuno-suppresants for the rest of her life as a result, and will still have a significant risk of rejection down the road. So, umm, yeah, I'm surprised that after all that she went through with AGM that she was willing to play lab rat again.
Other than that, great story overall! Thoroughly enjoyed it! Keep 'em coming!
Terry will be on immuno-suppressants...
True, but not necessarily true.
She will only need to be on immuno-suppressants IF the organ isn't fully integrated as her own, which appears to have happened since there's been no mention of immuno-suppression.
Any time that the "match" is close enough (most often with identical twins) the risk of rejection is minimized to almost nothing. Well, with truly identical twins it is nothing. The further from that you get, the greater the risk of rejection. I think for the sake of this story we're going to assume that when the doctors said there was a "fundamental similarity" they meant exactly that: the kids were damned near identical at the DNA level.
They probably DID have her on immuno-suppressants at some point early on while in the hospital through an IV drip while watching for any signs of rejection, but took her off when it became apparent they weren't needed.
Yes... the family took a huge risk, but, wouldn't you under the same circumstances? If you had a chance, however remote, to be able to truly give birth to your own child (if you're mtf...) wouldn't you take it? They had a nasty hand dealt to them, but they played it the best they could and were blessed.
I realize the chances of things working out so wonderfully in the real world are almost zilch, but I don't see a "Real World" tag do you? It's a story, complete fiction, of the absolute greatest "feel good" sort. And I for one, rather enjoyed it as such.
Abigail Drew.
Great story thank you Karin.
Very interesting story of what a loving family struggled through with many obstacles and trials and still came out as winners.
Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter!
(Mark Twain)
LoL
Rita
well
well you sure went where i never expected. a great story but i did have to pull out tissue box in last chapter. keep up the good work.
robert
Well done.
A well written story. It's fascinating seeing character included that are F2M as well, a side of the transgender story we don't often see here. I love that you included a loving and accepting father in this story as well. I eagerly await your next tale. Keep up the great work.
Well I was right about Terry
And Al. They are both very happy, I'm just sorry Terry had to miss the state faire but she was right about thing & wrong at the same time. She said her mom was going to win A blue ribon at the state faire, but she didn win one but she won three thanks to Terry's research in how to display her mothers wares. Al is VERY intelgent & can read between the lines & precise s lot & duduce at the same time.
This is a great story & if there is a sequl to this story I'd read it.
Love Samantha Renee Heart
No not good story, great story!!
Karin I am having trouble typing from the tears falling down my face
and making me bleary eyed!!! This is the daydream that I used to have
growning up!!
Except it was done to me by aliens in their space ship.
I was put into a vat of stuff and when I got out I was totally
female. This "hope" kept me going for a long time!! You know I
hadn't thought about that daydream for a long while until I read this
story!!
Maybe you could use this as an idea for another story. The
difficulties to explain her new status and be accepted as a
girl!! Also maybe the aliens could wipe her memory of how it
happened. Then her own struggle with accepting herself. I can see
many different possiblities for this.
Go for it Karin you have the skills to do it!!
Pamela
Mom's present
When Teri was being interviewed by an AGM rep, she told her about the Paris fund. So Mom and Teri were first classed by AGM to Paris the following summer! A beautiful happy ending just got better............if it were possible. thanks, Karen
State Fair
This was a really awesome story. Lots of interesting twists and turns into it. I loved it.
But it would have been nice to see how Terry handled the state fair. You can't have everything. And I could always go watch the movie again.