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Many patients who experience this event often state how grateful they feel to be alive in the time immediately following the event, however, all those supporting them should allow for, and support, a wide range of emotions so they feel validated in the trauma they experienced to get there.

“I was confused, after all, it is a very weird feeling being so grateful yet so utterly pissed off and sad.”

“I remember crying, feeling like a part of me had been taken away. My ability to have more children and a part of what made me a woman was gone. But I was alive, and at least I have had the opportunity to heal from this and watch my son grow up. …If I had to do this all over again to have him, I would.” The loss of fertility is…a loss. Allowing for grief is an important part of healing.  

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