She Had Moxie - Embracing a Childfree Life After Cancer with Tracy Weiss & Chick Mission
In this week's season 4 finale episode of Stork’d, we are joined by Tracy Weiss. Tracy is a cancer survivor who lost her chance of having biological children and in so doing, she gives up on the vision she has of a future daughter to be named Moxie. Tracy’s journey is full of surprises and tough decisions that she had to make at the young age of 30. One of the biggest surprises is that her insurance company considered her egg and embryo freezing treatment prior to surgery and chemo to be “elective” which led her to her mission now to help other women facing cancer to access fertility preservation treatments. Tracy discusses what it was like jumping back into the “real world” post-cancer, and how her mindset changed as she went through the healing process mentally and physically. She also discusses dating in your early 40’s post cancer. Tune in this outstanding season finale episode to hear Tracy discuss how her journey has led her to the company Chick Mission, and their dedication to helping other women with a cancer diagnosis preserve their fertility.
In This Episode:
[2:34] Introduction to Tracy Weiss.
[4:00] Information about The Chick Mission.
[5:41] What was Tracy’s life before she was diagnosed with cancer?
[9:22] Tracy talks about the journey of discovering she had cancer.
[16:24] How did Tracy tell her friends and family and handle the information about her diagnosis?
[22:15] How many different doctors did Tracy see throughout this journey without hearing that she should preserve her fertility?
[25:43] Did Tracy always appreciate her amazing set of friends and community?
[29:26] What is fertility preservation?
[32:12] Tracy tells us more about freezing embryos.
[34:32] How did it feel for Tracy to re-enter life post-cancer?
[39:15] What happened to Tracy’s embryo’s when she got divorced? What was her grieving process?
[42:10] What is the dating experience after cancer?
Takeaways:
Your reality isn’t a fact for everyone. Something you may have, someone else may be longing for.
Each person in your life can offer you different experiences in your life. Someone around you has likely experienced something that you are going through or knows someone who has gone through it.
Insurance providers don’t consider Cancer an eligible diagnosis for fertility preservation, the Chick Mission is working to change that.
The flexibility you don’t have with embryos you have with eggs. An embryo has to be owned by two people, which has legal implications.
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