Life journeys
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When pregnancy brings fear instead of joy
When Joy Becomes a Secret. How is it possible for such a happy event to turn into the most coveted secret? To try for years. To succeed. And instead of shouting with joy, to be afraid that something might go wrong along the way. For a dream to come true and you not believing it. To want to keep it hidden, like a treasure that if...
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Meeting Professor Kypros Nicolaides: Humanity in the Healthcare System
The miracle of the people behind the diagnoses. Αs a continuation of my story "When the miracle hurts", I feel the need to pause on something that often gets lost amidst diagnoses, percentages, and medical terms: the people. Because during this difficult journey, I met so many distinguished scientists, and particularly an embryologist [fetal medicine specialist] with..
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The strength you discover through pain
A stop along the journey. There are moments when you don't write to narrate events. You write to pause. To look back, no longer with pain, but with understanding. This text is one such pause.I felt the need to pause for a while. Not to feel pain again, but to see what all of this left behind. And what remained..
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The joy I didn't dare to imagine: Pregnancy after losses
When hope blooms again. After everything that had preceded, and as a continuation of "And yet, I continued: a journey through uncertainty", time passed at a different pace, some days lighter, some more difficult. Slowly I realized something important.. I had reached my limit. I couldn't bear another try, I couldn't bear any more pain. My heart and..