[post_page_title]Discovering the bitter truth[/post_page_title]
It was that last point about infertility that Richard had clung to in the doctor’s office. He must be wrong, Richard thought in exhilaration, because he had already fathered three children – two of them twins – completely naturally! “In my mind,” he recalled, “it proved his diagnosis was wrong, and therefore I hadn’t got the disease (that) killed my sister.”
After speaking to several more medical professionals, the realization had begun to sink in. He did have CF, and that meant he couldn’t have been the father of his children. He didn’t cry at that point, he said, but he did go completely numb. “My life is ruined,” he thought. Before he went any further, though, he had to make sure.
