It’s no secret that I <3 the internet. I spend a lot of my free time on here. The internet has been my lifeline. It’s hard for people who don’t use it a lot to understand but some of my best friends I’ve never met in person. When dealing with infertility I found blogs of other women going through the same thing. I had felt so alone and didn’t know that I wasn’t. In the almost 7 years since I was diagnosed I have met one other person (aside from my nurse at my clinic—not sure if that one counts) in real life who had really struggled with infertility like I had. Many others are out there I’m sure, but it’s not like we walk around wearing matching t-shirts or something. I’ve maintained friendships with some of these women for years. Many of them have children now and now we talk about parenthood more and infertility less. But when one of us is dealt a blow, the others are there. They are there in ways the people who haven’t been there can’t be. And for this I am grateful.

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