There, on the list of side effects, sandwiched between vomiting, hair loss, heart damage, and organ failure, I saw something that upset me more than any of the bad news I’d received so far: The cancer treatment that could save my life would also most likely leave me infertile. Since my diagnosis, I had felt relief, followed by shock, confusion, and horror. And now, something else: a wrenching sense of foreclosing.
