That's what it's all about. When you're doing the hard work and you're putting one foot in front of the other, and you don't get the funding, and you don't have the manpower, you have to remember what the bottom line is - it is that you're helping people at the grassroots level. We had defined the problem but we hadn't really found any lobbying group or any solution when I left. The advocacy, for both medical insurance and adoption expenses, is so important and it must continue. Being a membership organization whose membership is often financially strapped because of the very nature of infertility tests and treatment or who are in the early child-raising years, which are very expensive when people don't have a lot of money.
People leave the organization after they get help.
Therefore, we have had to look to corporate sponsorships and to the providers to be donors and patrons, and it's very hard to do this without compromising neutrality as a consumer advocacy organization. Just that I'm so proud of the organization for enduring for 25 years of constant struggle and the people who've made that happen since I left. I am just so proud that the organization has come along as well as it has, and that it was something that I was able to start. Really, nothing in my life stands any bigger, that I am more proud of. It is certainly my best accomplishment that I was able to have a part in this wonderful organization.