“I felt like I wanted to die.”
Posted on July 11, 2008
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A woman, I’ll call her Jenny, that I met recently called me the other day and said, “Last night I felt like I wanted to die. It’s so dramatic. Do other women fell this way too?”
Jenny just recently miscarried her first child. She is older and her doctor told her that the probable reason for her miscarriage is her age. Jenny is not sure her partner will proceed with fertility treatments using donor egg. She wants a child so bad, she aches.
Can you relate?
I assured her that she is not alone. In fact there are millions of women that are experiencing the same feelings that she is. She found comfort in knowing that she is not alone. I cannot tell her that it will be okay and that someday she’ll have a child (although she is considering adoption) because with infertility, you never know. All I can do is offer support and resources for Jenny and other women like her in their quest.
When we hung up the phone she told me I was awesome. But really I felt hopeless.
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I think there are never the “right words” when someone is going through any kind of trying to get preg, miscarrying, losing a baby, etc - it is all so personal and painful and the you said the best thing possible. ..