I was recently given a set of Love Inspired novels (published in 2005) and On the Doorstep mentions PCOS on page 9.
"Polycystic ovarian disease. It sounded so complicated, but it was really just a fancy term for a combination of irregular cycles and ovarian cysts that could add up to infertility. Thought it was still just a possible diagnosis, to Pilar it felt like a death sentence, at least for the future she's always imagined.
"She woudln't know anything for sure until the ultrasound her doctor had scheduled for Tuesday, but she worked in the adoption b usiness. She understood the prospects. And the possibility hanging heavily over her heart was that even if she found a man to love, there was a chance she could never have his children."
The book seems to be about a 28-year-old who works for an adoption angency. She has just been to her GYN and is now dreading her work at the agency.
I will post more after I get farther into the book.
"Reflexively, she pressed her hand against her lower abdomen, as if she could protect the fragile organs inside. The minor cramps that had brought her into the doctor's office in the first place squeezed again, taunting her."
"If only she didn't have to wait another day to know the answers to questions she'd never wanted to ask. If only she didn't feel so alone in what had become one of the scariest periods of her life."
"The organs in her abdomen ached by turns to compete for her attention. The sharp pains on her left side seemed more intense and more frequent this morning, enough to bring tears to her eyes. . .
"Pilar shifted in her chair as another pain, stil sharper than before, shot though her left side. Just how long were the hospital personnel going to leave her sitting there, hurting and not knowing? . . . she hoped they would skip her altogether. Then she could hold on to her blissful ignorance just a while longer. . . Pilar awoke with a start. . . A ruptured cyst. Emergency laparoscoptic surgery. . . Torsion of the ovary. . .Somehow she manged to nod when the doctor reminded her that plenty of women with only one ovary became pregnant. . . This was what it felt like on the day your dreams died."
Novel: On the Doorstep by Dana Corbit 
