I have given injections in emergency departments. I have inserted intravenous lines into necks and chests for chemotherapy. I have drained fluid from abdomens and lungs, done core biopsies of liver tissue and breast lumps, inserted urinary catheters, performed autopsies. I spent years in pathology dissecting specimens. Then came the day I had to give...Read More

You’ve done the research. You’ve attended the appointments. You feel as prepared as anyone can be. Then your first cycle starts, and it feels nothing like what you imagined. No amount of preparation fully captures what it’s like to live it. Not because anything has gone wrong. Because the gap between reading about IVF and...Read More