Last year COVID canceled her IVF treatment. This year she's celebrating her first Mother's Day
Cyndel Surdovel had just suffered a miscarriage when the pandemic hit and forced her IVF clinic to close, deeming treatments, "elective".
Author: Liz Crawford
Updated: 7:28 PM EDT May 7, 2021
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — Waiting can be hard for anyone, but no one knows the struggle more than a couple dealing with infertility.
One year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic forced many couples to delay their fertility treatments because it was considered "elective" or "non-essential."
Cyndel and Chris Surdovel of Wesley Chapel, Florida were one of those couples.
They had been trying to have a baby for three years and after a few failed fertility treatments and a miscarriage, the couple was just getting ready to try another round of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) when the pandemic hit.