Over the past few weeks I’ve been for the most part, silent. It’s totally not me and not how I typically swat away life’s sour lemons. I’ve watched Chris steadily move through the many stages of grief. His denial that this was actually happening, that our second surrogacy had failed and the past 11 months of planning were for not. Then I watched … [Read more...]
Seeing Double
I woke up that morning. Candace and I had waited for what seemed to be an epoch. Finally, we hopped in the car and headed to UVA hospital to meet with a neuroophthalmologist, get an MRI, and then meet with my neurosurgeon. We were going to get answers, at least that was the goal. First task, get dressed. It was 0-dark early in the morning and I … [Read more...]
We sit. We wait. We worry.
Candace This post was going to be about sunshine-y things, rainbows and even a feel-good recap of how Chris and I took on Capitol Hill this past week. I am sorry, but it won’t be any of that. At least not this week. I celebrated the success of a fantastic Advocacy Day last Thursday. After a long day of advocacy work, my day concluded with heavy … [Read more...]