Sitting in an interview a few years back, I’m asked “what adversity have you faced and how have you overcome it?” I can’t help but give an inward, knowing smile.
I begin my rehearsed, canned, well-researched answer about a work project that was getting off-track. Adversity. How about 100+ months of actively trying to get pregnant and not succeeding.
Not once. Except maybe for a couple false positives (which are supposedly rare, yet I’ve had three). I went through four IVF in-vitro attempts (at three different clinics) that were all cancelled before I even made it to retrieval.
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