Click the play button on the video window to the right to see the storySURPRISE, AZ -- A Valley man says every Father’s Day is like a miracle.
“We really look at Father’s Day as a celebration like some look at Christmas,” said Wes Young of Surprise.
Being a father to 4-year-old Cody and 6-year-old Tyler is really not what Young expected to be doing at the age of 47. Young has a 19-year-old son from a previous marriage.
“My ex-wife had a lot of complications with pregnancy and we decided that I should have a vasectomy,” he explains.
After going through a divorce and remarrying, kids soon became a priority and the Youngs started looking for options.
They turned to Dr. Sheldon Marks at the International Center for Vasectomy Reversal in Tucson, one of a few clinics in the world specializing solely in vasectomy reversals.
A week before Father’s Day 2003, Tyler was born.
“It was amazing,” said Young. “He was perfect.”
Dr. Mark says Young’s story is not uncommon. In fact, he estimates that one in twenty men who have vasectomies will eventually want a reversal.
Dr. Randy Craig, an infertility specialist here in the Valley agrees. He says he is seeing a wave of patients looking to become parents either “again” or for the first time but just later in life.
Craig himself is one of his own success stories. He and his wife decided to have kids a little later in life and have a set of twins and a set of triplets thanks to in vitro fertilization.
Craig says with more options out there and higher success rates in surgeries like vasectomy reversals more and more people are coming forward to at least try.
“We were given the opportunity to raise two beautiful boys,” said Young, who today can only be grateful for the life years ago he never knew he would have wanted so desperately.
