This is the Guardian. old when I unexpectedly had heard that my father had prostate cancer.

I always think that there's strength in coming together as a community to share, to heal and to release.

The reason why I'm excited to join the coffee morning today is

because I'll be surrounded by fellow Muslim women.

Communities are doing Macmillan coffee morning.

Follow their stories at the Guardian.com forward slash Get Together for Good.

This message was paid for by Macmillan Cancer Support.

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by, on track to your destination, not a care in the world as you simply lean back and before you know it

you're there this is how travel should feel and on our trains it does.

Avanti West Coast feel good travel. I would go to our nursing service to get a blood draw which would take about 15 minutes.

And then I'd head over to the scanner and it would take about an hour,

maybe an hour and a half altogether with setup and everything.

That's Dr. Liz Crastel.

In her day job, she's an associate professor of neurobiology and behavior at the University

of California Irvine.

But over the past few years, in her spare time,

she's also been a research subject.

Get changed, get comfortable on the table,

which is getting harder and harder, of course,

during the course of pregnancy, but it wasn't too bad.

Most of our scans were pretty relaxing for me. I've done some scans numerous times so I'm pretty comfortable in there.

When she started IVF, Liz had an idea.

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