I will forever be thankful for Instagram.
I wonder if those two creators of this app we log in and out of every day knew they would be changing lives, creating families and relationships and partnerships and all kinds of good in this world, just by allowing others to share a few photos and a few words with friends and strangers alike?
I can't remember what caused me to click on the #ivfjourney hashtag one day, long before we had even officially taken the first step into this dungeon of heartbreak and, what feels like, solely doom. Maybe it was a premonition, maybe it was pure curiosity, maybe it was fate, or maybe it was God nudging me along, carefully and sneakily laying the path that would bring me to you, right when we needed you the most.
Thank you for always answering each and every question of mine with a patience that only a mama of two young ones and only who truly cares can have. Thank you for entering each room each time with a smile on your face and a true sense of joy in your voice. I can hear you right now: "Hiiiii! How are you!" Thank you for the gentle nudges of encouragement and the confident expressions of what you knew to be true, of what you believed in even when it was hard for us to believe ourselves. Thank you for loving your craft, for continuously striving to create true miracles for so many of us, for creating a space that feels safe and hopeful when the rest of the world outside of that office can feel so cruel and heartbreaking, void of all hope.
Thank you - we will forever be grateful for you and we will forever love you with the deepest of thanks and awe.