Eileen McGill Fox

Born and raised in Boston, MA, I graduated from Wellesley College and did a brief stint working on Capitol Hill. I met and married a man from County Sligo, Ireland and we had our first child in Dublin while he finished his undergraduate degree. We had three more children during and just following his PhD program before we settled in Manhattan, Kansas where he was a professor. While in Kansas, I received a Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy (oh, the irony!) and worked in the public and Catholic school system, sat on the Catholic school board, and managed a household with four active kids.
With our youngest finishing up college, my husband's career took us to Champaign, Illinois where he was a university administrator. Three weeks after landing in a new town and new state, my life took a hard left turn. I discovered that the man I thought had been faithful for over thirty years had been living a double life of sexual encounters with men, a few women, and many sex workers and had been doing so for the entirety of our marriage. That kick-in-the-gut was followed by a diagnosis of HPV16 and three HPV-derived cancers: cervical, vulvar, and anal. My husband has admitted in a legal deposition that he is the source of my HPV.
I currently live in Tampa, Florida where I volunteer as a patient advocate for cancer patients and use my voice for those who have faced infidelity and suffered grievous consequences.
On the upside, I have a wonderfully supportive family and close friends and a delicious 14 month old granddaughter.