My daughter is due to have surgery in August to remove her ovaries. Because of her being at risk for Gonadalblastoma, we feel this is the on... http://dailystrength.org Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:58:32 +0100 DailyStrength RSS 0.11.3.0.6833 (FeedCreator 1.7.2) http://static.dailystrength.org/v/0.11.3.0.6833.29/images/promo/logo-round-rss.gif http://dailystrength.org http://dailystrength.org/c/Turner_Syndrome/advice/3091389-surgery-ovary-removal-anyone/lastpage surgery but there are other ways for her to become a mom. Adoption and surrogates are only a couple of options. If she want's to be a mom there are ways for that to happen.]]> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:14:59 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/c/Turner_Syndrome/advice/3091389-surgery-ovary-removal-anyone/lastpage surgery as well - but we have several years before they schedule it since she is only a baby. I know what you mean about wanting to do the right thing. It is such a big decision and my husband and I are dreading that day. We will k...]]> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:36:52 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/c/Turner_Syndrome/advice/3091389-surgery-ovary-removal-anyone/lastpage surgery over 20 years ago for the same reason. I am a physician as well. It is the right thing to do and I don't regret my parent's decision. There are other ways of being a mother. I am the mother of a beaut...]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:11:31 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/c/Turner_Syndrome/advice/3091389-surgery-ovary-removal-anyone/lastpage hope you have found peace with your decision. I just received an email from our edno. dr. - and she is saying that they may want to take my baby's ovaries earlier than he first told me - age 4-5 - now he said that they would like to do it at age 2-3. I am really stressed over this. I have asked...]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 00:34:04 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/c/Turner_Syndrome/advice/3091389-surgery-ovary-removal-anyone/lastpage surgery. Your daughter can achieve anything she wants to. God Bless.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 22:37:44 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/c/Turner_Syndrome/advice/3091389-surgery-ovary-removal-anyone/lastpage surgery... I'll be watching the posts... hope to learn more...]]> Fri, 09 May 2008 09:21:01 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/c/Turner_Syndrome/advice/3091389-surgery-ovary-removal-anyone/lastpage reading this thread who are confused, the surgery is NOT for all patient's with Turner's syndrome. It is ONLY recommended for mosaic Turner's who have an unidentified chromosome fragment. In some cases there is concern that this fragment could be Y chromosome material. If so, there is a...]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 09:41:23 +0100