Why didn't anyone tell me?!

A few days ago I wrote about how isolating this trying to get pregnant experience has felt.

But today a good friend, a school counselor friend actually, realized I've been off and she started talking to me about what's been going on.  I don't know why I hate talking about it to people other than my mom and DH (maybe it's admitting that something could be wrong with me), but when I talked to this friend, I was so surprised to learn that she'd gone through the exact same thing 25 years ago-  Endo, trouble with pregnancy and finally, conceiving her daughter.  Her story made me so emotional.  On one hand, I felt so much empathy toward what she went through and relief with the happy ending to her story.  On the other hand, I felt so angry.

As young girls, why don't our doctors do a better job of educating us about our reproductive health?  I read somewhere yesterday that one in three women will have trouble getting pregnant.  If that statistic is correct, why isn't this information more widely available and talked about?  If I had known that, perhaps I would have made a different choice about when to get pregnant.  Knowledge is power (insert eye roll here) and you make decisions based on what you know at the time.  What if I had waited to try to get pregnant until I was 30 with Endo?  35?  I feel like the one good thing about my situation is that I'm not waiting any longer to have the surgery.  This summer I wasn't ready for it because my head and heart needed a chance to see if the pain would stop and we would get pregnant on our own.  But it hasn't and we're not and now I feel like this is the best I can do with the information I have at this moment.  I hope that it isn't too late.