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🗓️ 30 November 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | From World Radio, this is Double Take. I'm Les Sillers. Last time, we introduced you to Dillon |
0:06.3 | Herting. Every single day, I was just in the Bible. Every single day, all day. I wouldn't |
0:12.8 | take it back for anything. She became a Christian while in a Michigan prison on drug charges, |
0:17.6 | but she began to grow in her faith. After 18 months, she got out of jail, got married in 2019. |
0:23.6 | Then she and her husband tried to start a family. |
0:26.6 | She desperately wanted someone to love and nurture, |
0:29.6 | a child to train up to know and love Christ, |
0:32.6 | but they struggled to conceive. |
0:35.6 | I just remember being sad just because I wanted to be a mom so bad. |
0:41.3 | So she decided to try in vitro fertilization. |
0:44.3 | Her doctors extracted 17 of her eggs and successfully fertilized 10. |
0:49.3 | Three of the tiny humans died. |
0:52.3 | Doctors inserted two of the remaining seven into her uterus. |
0:56.0 | But there were still no guarantees. |
0:59.0 | Miscarages happened often at this point. |
1:01.0 | So when we left Dillon last episode, she had cleaned the local Walmart out of pregnancy tests. |
1:07.0 | She was trying to see if the embryos had implanted into her uterus. |
1:11.6 | It was 2020. |
1:16.7 | I spent about $200 a day on pregnancy tests being on the stick every time I had to go. |
1:18.5 | And that's where we left it. |
1:21.8 | This story is from world reporter Leah Savas. |
1:23.5 | She'll pick it up again right here. |
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