Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2021 Volume 2
When Kristin and her husband were struggling to conceive, providers began talking about infertility and assisted reproduction. “All I could think,” she recalls, “was great, now there’s another fight, another way my body let me down.”
When Kristin was thirty, single, and new to New England, she found a lump while showering. In a matter of days, she was in the fight for her life instead of settling into a new city. In a whirlwind of testing, diagnosis, and treatment, breast cancer threatened to steal Kristin’s future, one that had always included wanting to become a mother. Kristin’s whole goal was to stay alive and have children, yet no one brought up fertility preservation or the potential impact that her breast cancer could have on her future family building.