"I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived"
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The subtext runs on two tracks. One is bodily realism: surgery doesn’t end with a neat stitch line; it can rewrite the future you assumed you’d have. Her choice to include the doctors’ uncertainty matters because it pushes back against the myth of medicine as omniscient, and against the cultural pressure on women to treat fertility as a predictable life milestone. The other track is emotional posture: “I was prepared for a rough road” signals a hard-won readiness to live with disappointment, not a demand to be saved by a miracle.
Then the pivot: “out of nowhere we conceived.” It’s not triumphal so much as disorienting, the way real hope often arrives - unannounced, slightly unbelievable, and freighted with what came before. In a media ecosystem that loves either tragedy or victory, Combs holds both: the scar tissue and the sudden conception. That duality is the intent. She’s reclaiming narrative control over a story that’s usually flattened into either stigma or spectacle.
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| Topic | Overcoming Obstacles |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Combs, Holly Marie. (2026, January 17). I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-had-a-few-fibroids-removed-and-they-left-me-68320/
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Combs, Holly Marie. "I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-had-a-few-fibroids-removed-and-they-left-me-68320/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-had-a-few-fibroids-removed-and-they-left-me-68320/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.





