Preface
INFERTILITY Road to Hell and Back
To my dear readers,
This is probably one of the most intimate
and private memoirs you will ever read. I hope that you will do so with consideration and that you will understand why I have decided to share the most important phase of my life with you. I did not write this book to seek sympathy nor because I am a very outspoken person. It all started as a personal journal, many years ago. I decided to publish this book for the following reasons:
To remind myself on a daily basis not to take life for granted.
Because I know that there are so many people out there with similar problems.
Maybe you know someone who is going through infertility now, and you don’t know what to say to them, or maybe you are even unable to understand them.
Most importantly for me is: If you are thinking of aborting your baby. Please read my book and THINK AGAIN!
On reading this memoir, you will know that you are not alone and that there are hope and deliverance in every situation. You might learn something from my experiences, who knows. Perhaps you bought the book to compare your own treatment or journey with mine. It might be out of curiosity. If that is your reason, I hope that you enjoy reading it. For the ones that know me, I hope you learn a different side to me, a side you never knew. Perhaps you will understand me better than before.
If I can touch one person's life with my story, I will have succeeded in the objective that I set out to achieve when I made the decision to publish it. This was not my mission when I started writing my journal.
When I was experiencing infertility, I felt like the loneliest person alive. All my friends around me were getting pregnant. None of them were going through what I was. They couldn't understand my frustration, pain, and longing. Back in 1999, I also found that people didn't really want to talk about their infertility problems. This was hard for me, because I didn't have anybody who understood what I was going through, or what I was emotionally dealing with. I had support from my family and friends, but they never really understood and most of the time tried to avoid me, especially when I was on treatment. I turned to the Internet and made wonderful friends there. There were women who were in a similar situation and who felt exactly like I did. I learned a lot about all the treatments and got to understand why women would sometimes go a bit nuts when they were on the treatment. I wasn't always myself when I was on treatment. In the beginning, I thought I was the only person in the world who felt this way. I soon realized that I had Internet support systems and friends who were going through the same dilemma.
These days, it is much easier to talk about infertility, because today more and more women are experiencing it. I am not qualified to comment on the reason for this, but the percentage of infertile women is increasing every year.
What I want you to realize is that you are not alone. You might not know me, but by just reading my memoir, you will realize that there are people out there who can and will support you and understand you.
I am glad that I kept on writing during this sad, unhappy part of my life, because today I can share my infertility memoir with you.
To my dear readers,
This is probably one of the most intimate
and private memoirs you will ever read. I hope that you will do so with consideration and that you will understand why I have decided to share the most important phase of my life with you. I did not write this book to seek sympathy nor because I am a very outspoken person. It all started as a personal journal, many years ago. I decided to publish this book for the following reasons:
To remind myself on a daily basis not to take life for granted.
Because I know that there are so many people out there with similar problems.
Maybe you know someone who is going through infertility now, and you don’t know what to say to them, or maybe you are even unable to understand them.
Most importantly for me is: If you are thinking of aborting your baby. Please read my book and THINK AGAIN!
On reading this memoir, you will know that you are not alone and that there are hope and deliverance in every situation. You might learn something from my experiences, who knows. Perhaps you bought the book to compare your own treatment or journey with mine. It might be out of curiosity. If that is your reason, I hope that you enjoy reading it. For the ones that know me, I hope you learn a different side to me, a side you never knew. Perhaps you will understand me better than before.
If I can touch one person's life with my story, I will have succeeded in the objective that I set out to achieve when I made the decision to publish it. This was not my mission when I started writing my journal.
When I was experiencing infertility, I felt like the loneliest person alive. All my friends around me were getting pregnant. None of them were going through what I was. They couldn't understand my frustration, pain, and longing. Back in 1999, I also found that people didn't really want to talk about their infertility problems. This was hard for me, because I didn't have anybody who understood what I was going through, or what I was emotionally dealing with. I had support from my family and friends, but they never really understood and most of the time tried to avoid me, especially when I was on treatment. I turned to the Internet and made wonderful friends there. There were women who were in a similar situation and who felt exactly like I did. I learned a lot about all the treatments and got to understand why women would sometimes go a bit nuts when they were on the treatment. I wasn't always myself when I was on treatment. In the beginning, I thought I was the only person in the world who felt this way. I soon realized that I had Internet support systems and friends who were going through the same dilemma.
These days, it is much easier to talk about infertility, because today more and more women are experiencing it. I am not qualified to comment on the reason for this, but the percentage of infertile women is increasing every year.
What I want you to realize is that you are not alone. You might not know me, but by just reading my memoir, you will realize that there are people out there who can and will support you and understand you.
I am glad that I kept on writing during this sad, unhappy part of my life, because today I can share my infertility memoir with you.
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