DELAWARE COUNTY, Ohio — A cancer diagnosis can put your life plans on the back burner—plans, like starting a family.
Preserving fertility or saving for adoption may be out of the cards for financial reasons, especially on top of medical bills. A Genoa Township couple knows this firsthand. That’s why they’ve made it their mission to help others.
By their photos, it looks like high school sweethearts Mike and Megan Scherer have had it good. They married on the beach and now have a 5-year-old son, Elliott.
But it was after they tied the knot their world unraveled. At 26 years old, Mike was diagnosed with testicular cancer.
“It was a shock that it happened so young,” he said.
After going through chemotherapy, cancer was eventually behind them. They focused on starting a family. But they would meet another hurdle: infertility.