Infertility and the Author of Life
A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I sat together in an andrologist’s office as she shuffled through papers, asked a few questions, scribbled notes, and looked at the results of my husband’s latest tests. Time ticked past with excruciating slowness as we waited for her to give the verdict we’d been anticipating for longer than a year—ever since my husband entered remission for lymphoma in December 2021. Finally, she looked up at us and delivered the devastating news: because of the high toxicity of my husband’s chemotherapy, we were not going to be able to have children naturally....