Dr.
Xavier Aldridge, the director of Meridian’s reproductive medicine center.
I sent him the two versions of the file with a note that said only, I think something was done to these.
Please tell me I’m imagining it.
He called me back the next morning.
He did not tell me I was imagining it.
Chapter 8 — What the Records Really Said
We met in his office, and Xavier laid the real file open between us and walked me through it, line by line, in plain language, the way no one had ever bothered to do in four years of treatment.
My ovarian reserve had been normal.
My uterus had been healthy.