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Today marks 20 years cancer free for me.
This means I am part of an ever-growing group of young adult survivors of childhood cancers. And finally, finally! thanks to increased odds of remission and survival rates, we are growing large enough in numbers that lasting effects of chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments can be studied and […]
FYI, this is the weekend of the Penn State Dance Marathon, the largest student-run fundraiser in the world. Proceeds (now in the millions each year) go to my all time favorite charity (FertileHope is a close second), the Four Diamonds Fund:
The Four Diamonds Fund is named after a story that Christopher Millard wrote shortly […]
Funny how I have no problem spilling my infertile guts to you, dear reader, yet it has taken me months to get up the nerve to talk to my own parents.
Obviously, they are aware of the post-cancer, no egg scenario. They were there. But even though Michael and I have been exploring our options for […]
I was actually going to post this as a response to a comment left on Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters, but then I decided it was too off topic and I would have been responding not the post itself, which was wonderful, but to one of the comments left for it.
I’m bothered by the […]
You already know that I love the organization called Fertile Hope.
Fertile Hope is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing reproductive information, support and hope to cancer patients and survivors whose medical treatments present the risk of infertility.
Fertile Hope helped me realize that there were options available to me, even though I spent my entire […]
I just returned from my first Pennsylvania Governor’s Conference for Women. It was incredible. Affirming. Inspiring. As I was sitting there listening to phenomenal females like Doris Kearns Goodwin, PhD, I realized that I have never in my life been surrounded by so many women. As my intern so aptly stated, “there is a lot […]
One of my first posts here at Fertility Notes was on the Family Building Act of 2007, legislation which would require the 90% of private insurance companies that don’t currently cover fertility treatments to do so.
If you aren’t among the lucky customers of the other 10%, there are places you can go to apply for […]
As you probably already know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Kudos to Gloria at Cancer Commentary who encourages women to Change the Statistic by getting annual mammograms. Grace at Kids Health Notes offers some advice on how to talk to your kids about cancer. Did you know that about one in four new breast […]
Sounds like the name of a secret society or a collaboration of sinister characters one might find watching reruns of Alias or the X-Files. It is, in fact, a bold new initiative, funded by the National Institutes of Health, organized by Northwestern University that aims to protect the fertility of women who are undergoing radiation […]
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