Ms Ilanna Darcy:

What we are trying to say is that endometriosis often leads to fertility issues. As I mentioned in the opening statement, surgery is often performed to provide this window for conception to occur. That is for the lucky ones. There are some who may have lost their wombs or their ovaries and cannot have kids. Some of them have lost those organs too young or there are some for whom the disease has just done so much damage that they cannot have kids. To be in a setting surrounded by people having children when it is the one thing one is struggling to do and it is the only place one can go to get one's treatment adds to the mental anguish. One is sitting in a waiting room and watching people with newborn babies when it is the one thing you want but cannot have or struggle to have.