![]() Where were we? I had asked myself this question several times on our long journey to conceive. We could see only what lay directly ahead of us, in our small circle of light. Our windshield wipers beat back the elements as we tried not to slide off the road. ![]() ![]() Frozen, snow-burdened hemlocks bent over the Virginia highway as if trying to grab us, threatening to break over our heads. The sleet fell in clumps, and our headlights cast spots of light on a dark landscape that looked altogether alien. It was January, I had a few days off from teaching, and my insurance dictated that all IVF treatment be conducted in one calendar year-so my husband and I found ourselves driving the seventy miles to my clinic on wet, icy roads. I began my first cycle of in-vitro fertilization during a days-long snowstorm.
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