Chapter 12: Suffering

08/04/2025 26 min

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Episode Synopsis

“Next to my vocation, the greatest gift I have is the pain I carry every day, because it forces me to cling to Jesus.” — Mother Angelica "Three trips to the emergency room for morphine, two to urgent care for Toradol injections, eleven surgeries, monthly narcotics, nausea, vomiting, countless hours writhing in bedsheets, the tub, and/or the bathroom floor, dramatic diet changes, planning life around a period, and sometimes dailyanti-inflammatories—for many women, the emotional pain of infertility is only one side of the coin......The pain has molded itself into a sort of cyclic monster I have learned to fear because even the strongest medicines available for personal use cannot control it. It isn’t discomfort that just comes every once in a while. It is a freight train running at full speed and plowing into my body twelvetimes a year whether I’m ready for it or not. When you are at the mercy of such a ruthless beast of a disease, there is only one place to turn: Calvary..."