HAVING CHILDREN

After having an ileostomy, a J-pouch and anastomoses (surgeries with a significant risk of infertility due to the adhesions they can cause) when I was really young, this fear became a reality before I was even old enough to think about it. 

The disease took not only my colon, but also the happiness that having children brings you. Never being able to feel him kick my belly, feel life grow in me, see my eyes in his, his smile through mine, and see his hair color…