The Day I Got Cancer, I Took Out Every Loan

The day I was diagnosed with cancer, I ran into my husband at the hospital, his arm around another woman as they walked into the fertility clinic. I gripped the report in my hand and followed them without thinking, my husband's gentle words drifting back to me one after another. "Don't be scared, Blanche. Medicine has come so far these days. Even if you can't carry a baby, we'll still have our own child."