I wasn’t worried about my fertility – until a Post-It note changed everything

After the shock had subsided, I felt – surprisingly – immense relief (Picture: Simone Paget)

I woke up to blinding white lights and a searing pain across my abdomen.

I’d just had my left ovary – and its four-inch cyst, which had left me in agony for months – removed.

I had been counting down the days to this surgery. But a nurse now hovered over me – and, taking a Post-it from my chart, he read two words that changed everything.

‘Infertility likely.’

Still groggy from anaesthesia, I felt both astonished and confused, wonderi...