I finally booked the check-up I kept postponing

Dear Delyara, I had been putting it off for months. Partly because life was busy. Partly because I didn’t want to hear something I wasn’t ready for. Partly because when women are carrying too much, our own health becomes one more inconvenient thing to schedule around everyone else. This week I got tired of my own excuses and booked it. I’m not proud that I waited. I am proud that I stopped waiting. Sometimes the victory is not that fear disappears. It’s that I move while the fear is still there.