Personal Stories
More Than the Data
I spend my days in the high-velocity world of nursing, where data is king and every symptom has a protocol. I am trained to be the calm in the storm,…
More Than a Diagnosis: The Journey That Saved My Life
For years, I kept my infertility story tucked away because it felt too heavy to share. Infertility, for me, was more than a diagnosis. It was silence, stigma and the…
More Than My Infertility Story
Infertility was part of my life for eight years—eight years of treatments, waiting, hoping, and grieving. It looked like five IUIs, endometriosis surgery, countless medicated cycles, three egg retrievals, and…
Dismissive Doctors, White Pants, and Fibroids Awareness: Turning Pain into Purpose
My life changed forever when I was diagnosed with uterine fibroids, but my story begins long before that. Growing up, conversations about women’s health were often taboo, even though my…
Thank You, Infertility!
By Sue J., MI I mean, who on Earth would ever say thank you to infertility? You’d have to be crazy to feel grateful for such a dreaded disease that…
Infertility Changed Me
The last 24 years have been a journey. Infertility changed me in ways I never imagined. I look at myself and the world through a different lens now. In my…
When You Succeed And Fail: How to Let go of Loss
What “never give up” should mean: learning to rejoice in success and let go of loss after spending my 30s undergoing fertility treatments. I’m 37. I’ve spent almost my entire…
#WeCanAll Live Beautiful Lives: Infertility Doesn’t Change That
Recently, I rewatched the movie “Up.” In hopes of not spoiling too much but also providing context, it’s about two characters who thought they were going to be parents, and…
#WeCanAll Support Those Childless by Infertility
After a 10-year infertility battle which included one HSG procedure, one laparoscopic surgery to diagnose stage 3 endometriosis, six months of Lupron that caused medical menopause, three infertility clinics in…
There is a Woman, and #WeCanAll Support Her
What you don’t know about infertility is that it feels like you are living a double life. You have the “self” that you present to the world and you have…