Hope in the Time of Despair

This is my heart-felt story of too many emotionally jarring trials to conceive a normal embryo via in-vitro fertilization, at my "seasoned" age of 42-43. The pain and despair were starting to brim inside me and, at the encouragement of a highly spiritual friend, I considered letting the gates open and describing how I felt, the ordeal we had been through and what I wish I knew before starting the process.

It felt cathartic every time I sat down to write and bared a bit more of what I had gon...