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Against all odds: ‘At 35, I had the fertility blood profile of a 60-year-old woman’


by IMAGE
05.04.23

When Sheilagh Foley was given a one per cent success rate of having a child of her own, she harnessed her last remaining reserve – hope. Sometimes, just sometimes, blind faith pays off, as she discovered.

Covid may have been forcing us to examine our health, but it also pushed us to look for hope. I am alive because of hope. When people threatened to take my hope away, I found new hope. Don’t be afraid to dream. If there were no hopes, no dreams, there would be no inventions, no cures, no progress. Here’s my story… At 22, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. At 30, I had developed mouth...

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