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Evan Cohen married his fiancée Danielle on March 29, 2008 and they honeymooned in Key West. Now 13 months after Evan Cohen went to Hopkins for a reverse vasectomy, his sperm are fine, but Evan and his Danielle aren’t pregnant yet. They’ve been back to see Dr. Karen Boyle twice in follow up and she assured them that Evan’s sperm are now more than acceptable. They have a monitor to gauge Danielle’s menstrual cycle and are continuing to try to get pregnant.
Evan recently got a new job in computer security and Danielle is working part time doing radiology billing. In their free time, they enjoy off-roading and going to the shooting range.
The show at first made it seem that I would not marry my husband if he couldn't give me kids. I am not sure if all of you read about a reversal but its never 100% that it will actually work. I can't believe people actually believe that I am so selfish that if he doesn't give me a child that I would divorce him or not be with him. I am not that selfish......... I have always wanted a child of my own and a man so wonderful as mine couldn't have any until this surgery. He did this surgery to give me something I have always wanted and that he actually wants as well. A man that would do this is more than a man but an angel. Even if we don't conceive the fact that he went through such a painful procedure to show how much he loves me words just can't describe how that made me, us feel. It was a connection to one another a commitment for each other that no matter how hard things can get or if anything terrible could happen we would be there for one another. I also can't believe that any of you would think that if he got into a terrible accident and could not give me kids or couldn't walk that I would walk away... I would never wish that on my worst enemy and if that happened I would be devastated but would never leave him, I would be by his side no matter what... I love my step kids but their mother makes it known that they are not mine and throws that card a lot especially if I want to spend time with them. So excuse me for yearning for my own biological child. And if we can't we will maybe adopt . So all of you women who say these horrible things but have your own children really don't understand how it would feel not to have those children you were blessed with... So please think before speaking.
Thanks
Danielle Cohen
The show at first made it seem that I would not marry my husband if he couldn't give me kids. I am not sure if all of you read about a reversal but its never 100% that it will actually work. I can't believe people actually believe that I am so selfish that if he doesn't give me a child that I would divorce him or not be with him. I am not that selfish......... I have always wanted a child of my own and a man so wonderful as mine couldn't have any until this surgery. He did this surgery to give me something I have always wanted and that he actually wants as well. A man that would do this is more than a man but an angel. Even if we don't concieve the fact that he went through such a painful procedure to show how much he loves me words just can't describe how that made me, us feel. It was a connection to one another a commentment for each other that no matter how hard things can get or if anything terrible could happen we would be there for one another. I also can't believe that any of you would think that if he got into a terrible accidient and could not give me kids, couldn't walk that I would walk away... I would never wish that on my worst ememy and if that happened I would be lost but would never leave him, I would be by his side no matter what... I love my step kids but their mother makes it known that they are not mine and throws that card a lot especially if I want to spend time with them. So excuse me for yerning for my own biological child. And if we can't we will maybe adopt . So all of you women who say these horrible things but have your own children really don't understand how it would feel not to have those children you were blessed with... So please think before speaking.
Evan, congrats on your marriage and good luck with making a family...Don't listen to Heather Riley, apparently she's not on the same page as everyone else is who watched the show!!
Vale Hanzel
I have to be honest and say that I too was thinking along the same though path as Heather. As a married mother of two married to a wonderful man for 13 years, I think it is completely unfair to put such conditions on your love for someone and give them an ultimatum to "get what you want." I think that such a thought process is a preclude as to what your marriage could hold down the road when something else comes along that she may want. Again, sorry if we are being candid but I myself find it a very immature behavior for what is supposed to be a grown woman. Children or no children, I would love you for YOU and not what you can give me. I think her approach to it is where she went all wrong. It could have been discussed and then dealt with appropriately AFTER marriage.
But none the less, I must tell you a funny story. While I was watching the show, my two children were also watching it. My daughter is age 9 and my son is 7. I have always been medically upfront with them concerning body parts, etc teaching them, open with them, ie. When my son saw the doctor checking on you afterwards and she lifted up the sheet he finally clued in that you had surgery on your "wee wee" as we call it. I then informed him that it wasn't your "wee wee" but your "testicles" and he asked what were those? I told him those are the two little things that hang down from the "wee wee" and he said the funniest thing that made me die laughing. He said, "I always wondered what those things were." So thanks to your surgery, my son nows knows what his testicles are-LOL I told him that we need to get a medical book and have a talk-LOL
I have to agree with Heather's comment. I was thrown by the idea that your fiance would only marry you if you could father children. I hope that the editing of the show only shows that to be the case. When a person loves you enough to marry you, I think that the love should be unconditional, or you will only face problems later.
Thank you for all the kind words everyone!
I wanted to leave a comment for Heather Riley.. To be honest, the site/show made it seem more of a utimatum than what it was. I knew it was important to her, and I knew that if I could not give her a baby she would be miserable, it was 100% my choice to do this for her.
Thanks again Everyone!
I was very fascinated to see you and you fiancee going through this procedure. It was very interesting to see someone other than actors in a medical drama on TV where it is all acting and not a true experience. Good Luck to you both and I am keeping my fingers crossed in hopes of a pregnancy in the near future.
I am so proud of you and the show only touched a litte in a subtle way the tension between you and your fiancee and the strife that it caused in you wanting to reverse the vasectomy. I would like to follow with you and hopefully learn that the operation was successful and the sperm alowed a pregnancy to go for the two of you. You are a brave man and one that can impact the lives of your patients. I wish that you develop the relationships with your patients that I have with my PCP, Dr. Mark Ricaurte, Columbus, Ohio. Best to you and your family that soon will be growing--and to the end of your residency. Mark Williams, Orient, Ohio
I pray to the lord that you will be lucky enough to have children together. They are such a total blessing. You may have your own but their is nothing like having plenty of children around. They are gods gift to us all.
You are so brave. The fact that you are doing this to make your wife fufilled will in turn make you fufilled. I am so proud of you, you have stepped outside of the box and sacraficed yourself to make you and your family happy. You are also an inspiration to all people who say things can't happen. Things happen in this world because we find every way to make them happen. Best wishes and God's blessing!
Hi Evan! I saw your case at the show tonight. My husband also had his vasectomy reversed with Dr. Bowen. It's been 3 month and we are on the process of trying. He has two kids already and we get along very well, but we wanted our own. it was also funny to see your comments about the room. That room where you are supposed to collect th e"material" my husbabd hates that lol. but iot all comes down to a very noble reason right!!! We wish you all the luck. Our best regards,
i know you don;t no me but my prayers are with you and your future wife lots of luck
Hi Evan I just wanted to tell you John Hopkins saved my life I recieved an incompatible kidney transplant.If anyone can help you they can!GOOD LUCK and best wishes!
The premiere episode of this intriguing six part documentary, which in part, will follow your own intensively painful, private journey through a surgery in which you apparently are literally basing your entire future with your fiancee upon its resuts, has yet to air. It is scheduled to premeire nexct Thursday. However, I obviously have read the "teaser" for the first part of this documentary above, and was immediatey struck by the statement concerning your fiance's apparent "utimatum" to you. According to the info read here, your fiance decared that unless you had a successful reversal of your previous vasectomy, she would not marry you. Mr. Cohen, you do not know me, and it may well be presumptious and way out of line for me to comment in any way on such any on such a delicate and personal matter.."utimatum" included. However, as a woman who has, in recent years been forced to go undergo a hysterectomy due to medical issues,,,, and faced great sadness over the inabiity to carry more children that I would have loved to have had; I must say that I am appalled that a woman who professes to have great ove for you...enough indeed to marry you..would yet make such a declaration and issue such an utimatum that is in stark contrast to the kind of supportive, unconditional love that is an absoute must for a successfu marraige. Evan, I sincerely hope your surgery was successful(I do not know yet ...as the episode hasn't aired,, as I said)..and I hope you are very happy and content in your persona life..however I feel compelled to say that I worry about how conditional your fiance's love for you is. What if you were in a horrible car accident and were schedued for a surgery that would determine if you would ever walk again or be confined to a wheelchair for life?....Or what if you were diagnosed with a cancer that REQUIRED a surgery that would preclude your ability to conceive children?....Would your fiancee issue the same ultimatum?.....I fear that a "love" with such conditions attached may never be the kind of "love" anyone would want or need for a lifetime of mutual support, encouragement and happiness. I wish you the very best of luck, contentment, fulfillment, and great love in your future! Please forgive my candor...I mean only the best.
its Ok as long as Evan could provide the needs of thier children>
This women won't marry you unless you can give her kids???? Dump her now!!!!!!!!
