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Milly

It’s bad news I can tell from the doctor’s face, and I clench my fists in my lap as I wait for it

‘I’han as she asked us to call her a while back e started this laborious journey towards having a baby,with my fists That bad?

Silently, Matt reaches over to hold hto thuood news today, news about how there was nothing to keepa family, afterSo

‘After looking at the results of Milly’s pelvic scan,’ Meghan begins, her gazebetween the two of us, ‘I think I can nosis’ She turns to focus on me, her mouth turned down at the corners ‘I’m sorry, Milly, but based on what I’ve seen in the scan as well as the hor over the last few months, I can now confirm you have Premature Ovarian Insufficiency’

‘Pre… what?’ I stare at her blankly We’ve talked aboutto relax, anda prescription for Clohan – has assured ish side to conceive, and I have every chance – her words – that it will happen And now she’s tellingworse? The dread that irling around in my stomach coalesces into a cold, hard ball

‘Essentially it’s preh we don’t like to call it that because menopause is its own natural process, and this, of course, is so else’

I s, clinging to Matt’s hand, norance ‘So what does thisthe hopeful note inat it

‘No, I’m afraid that’s not a possibility noith the level of deterioration already present’

Which sounds awful as well as final, and that is even worse ‘So what happens now?’ I ask, although I’m not sure I want to know

Meghan hesitates, and in that tiny pause I hear all I don’t want to know She’s breaking the bad news to me I can see it on her face, in the way she places her hands flat on the table, as if she has to brace herself, when I’ to need to absorb the hit