Endless POFibilities -- April 2001

Share Your Story: A call for stories about your experience with POF !!!!DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 1!!!!


We hope that you or your family, friends or doctors will take some time this Spring to share your story with us. We’ve extended the deadline for submissions to July 1st. AND, if you’re just not a ‘writer’ but still want to share your story, you can now submit your story on audiotape too! Or, be creative and do a conversation with your best friend about POF. It will take just one hour to do this, and can make all the difference in the world for another woman with POF and her loved ones. Do you like to handwrite things when you’re telling your story? We’ll take that too and transcribe it.

Every one of us has a story to tell.

Some of us tell our closest friends. Some of us don’t tell anyone.

About when we found out we have POF. How we felt when we first told someone. Who supported us, and who didn’t understand. Our experiences with health care providers. What decisions we’ve made, what complications we’ve had, what barriers we’ve overcome. Where we are today and where we’re going. And how we got there. We are all unique.

Stories are how we relate to one another. We hear others’ stories and know that we are not alone. We learn something new. We cry, we laugh, we smile. We understand.

And, remember . . . POFers are not the only ones with stories to tell. Your significant other, your family, your friends, your practitioners – they also all have a story about POF that is uniquely their own.
The POF Support Group invites you to share your story about your experience with POF. We are publishing a collection of stories from POFers, their significant others, family and friends, health care providers, researchers and counselors. This book will be edited by a diverse editorial board of POFers, with all proceeds from its sale going to further the IPOFA Support Group’s outreach and education efforts.

By sharing your story and unique perspective: Someone will find comfort in knowing they are not alone. Someone will finally understand their loved one. Someone will learn how to cope.

Please, take a moment and send us your story!

Send stories to: IPOFA Stories, PO Box 23643, Alexandria, VA 22304. or by email to pofsg@yahoo.com

Please attach a copy of the submission form, found on our website at www.pofsupport.org (or call us at 703.913.4787 to request one by mail)

Sum of the Parts is Greater than the Whole