First let me start by introducing myself.... My name is Samantha, Im 32 years old and live in Sunny Florida.  If I were ever given the opportunity to be granted one wish-it would, without a doubt, be the ability to become a mother.   My fiance and I have been together a little over 11 years now & for approx 8 of those 11 years now, our nightly prayers have included a little bundle of joy to call or own!!  You see, we've suffered 4 miscarriages-1 of those being twins- over the last 8 years.   The first devastated us, obviously, but I'd only been aware of my precious cargo for 13 days (almost 7 wks along) & hadn't quite wrapped my head around the situation yet.  I was scared & didn't have the confidence I could be the kind of mother I wanted to be yet... young... not much money saved... still in school...ext.  The second happened 1 year and 7 months after the first.   I had found out I was pregnant (10 weeks with TWINS!) & was again, a little scared (twins!?! Can i do this?!?), but incredibly excited!!  I bought all my prenatal vitamins, made my doctor appointments & patiently (🙄 Not!) waited for my first round of blood work.  That time came & went, & when I recieved a call 5 days later from the doctor's office, I immediately had a feeling of dread wash over me.  I had lost one of the twins already at that point, & the doctor informed me that for my own safety, he was recommending a D&C (medically necessary abortion). We recieved second opinions from 2 more physicians, but all the news was the same.  Again - DEVASTATED -only a bit more this time, as this was my 2nd miscarriage (3rd loss) and the devastation began to mix with an overwhelming fear that maybe something was wrong??  I underwent a few blood tests and such to make sure everything was ok with me & my fiance did the same.   I recieved results indicating that my thyroid was extremely hyperactive.  I didn't understand the full implications of this diagnosis until this last miscarriage.   Skip ahead approx 6 years (& unfortunately, another miscarriage... although I was not aware I had been pregnant at the time, so the pain was a bit more bearable.  'I didn't know, so i wasn't taking vitamins, eating healthy, ext... right??' I told myself this is why I lost another angel baby).  I found out on my fiance's birthday last year (May 2018) that I was 13 wks pregnant.  Yay!!!   I told myself 'im into my second trimester, so this is really going to happen!!'  We waited another 4 weeks to tell anybody (holding our breaths, this WOULD be the time!  We were SO READY!!) & when we did, everyone was so happy & supportive!!   As time passed and my first few doctor visits went well, I began to not only wrap my mind around being pregnant, but began preparing to actually BE a mother!!!  We bought baby items, we started building a nursery, our friends began planning showers, ext.  -Now back to my thyroid issue.   A woman's thyroid has an unimaginable effect on the way her body runs.   In my case, it effected my monthly visit from 'Aunt Flow' (along with a laundry list of others im now aware of).  Most woman consider these monthly visits just a minor inconvenience of being a woman, but we fail to think about the fact that this process is actually necessary  in order to allow our bodies to make, carry and deliver a baby. If you don't get your period 10 times during your pregnancy,  then there's a good chance something could/will go wrong. So, I was 19 weeks along and floating on cloud nine when, at a routine check-up with a Wellness Center where I was scheduled to take my Lamaze classes, the woman invited me to sit down.  I told her if she didn't mind I'd rather stand. She asked why, and I explained I simply had a bit of gas. She told me to go to the emergency room immediately. I did as she instructed, but thought that everything was fine and it was a bit of an overreaction. I received an emergency ultrasound and the doctor then told me that there was a "possibility" I have lost the baby. 'Possibility!? What do you mean possibility, is he there or not?!? Can you still hear the heat beat?!!!?'  Well, he was not.....the umbilical cord had never fully attached due to a a missed period & my little baby didn't have the proper food supply to continue growing.  He wasn't going to make it.  Ive truly never felt the pain I felt from that moment, stretching on & over the next 6 months.   Im still not ok, to be brutally honest.   Not a day goes by I don't cry for atleast a moment or two.   I've been trying to picture our lives with no children in them..... it pains me so much to even type these words!!   •This is my story.....   Now id like to explain my request for help.   Ive undergone multitudes of tests since that day & we've narrowed it down to my thyroid being the issue.   Since this is not considered 'life threatening', it's not covered under my not-so-fantastic insurance policy.    That's the reason im here, telling you all my story and asking, if your able, to consider donating what you can(ANYTHING HELPS!  We've already saved $880 towards my operation) to help us make the family we so, so desperately want to have!!!  Thank you for taking the time to read my story, and if your unable to help in a monetary form, I ask that you please pray for us!!