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Episode 131: Faith, Cancer, and Surrogacy – Paige McCoy


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Paige is a cancer survivor turned cancer advocate and mother to an energetic two-year-old son. Married in 2012, she never anticipated having to overcome a variety of obstacles to have a family. When unexplained infertility forced her to undergo multiple rounds of IVF, she never wavered. When leukemia unexpectedly struck three weeks before an embryo transfer, she kept her eye on recovering so she could one day pursue parenthood. And when the cancer treatments eliminated her ability to carry a child, she matched with a selfless surrogate to carry the embryo she dreamed about for years.
Today, Paige dedicates her life to helping other young adult cancer patients fight their diagnoses, knowing that a caring support system and documented bucket list are as strong as any medicine. In her spare time, she and her family alternate completing her personal bucket list created in the hospital with typical two-year-old activities like digging in dirt and memorizing construction vehicles. She lives in Denver with her husband, Jeff, and son, Bradley, whom she named after the bone marrow donor that gave her a second chance at life, and given the opportunity, she would love to grow their family by one more through another surrogacy journey.
Listen to Paige as she discusses with Ellen and Jenn:
• Going through infertility treatment at a young age.
• Getting ready for their embryo transfer, but instead finding out Paige had leukemia and needed to be taken by ambulance for emergency treatment!
• How infertility and cancer challenged her faith, but receiving the support of her priest and church renewed it.
• Tackling difficult topics such as pregnancy termination.
• Their first journey through surrogacy as intended parents and the birth of their first child.
• Their current search for their second surrogate and their hope for their last embryos.
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