Of all the subjects I intend to blog about, this one is probably the most difficult and emotional one for me. The one I have shed the most tears over. The one I have nearly lost my mind over. There’s nothing tragic about our particular situation, it’s just that I want something that it…
*Warning: this post may contain triggers for self-harm and material about depression which may be upsetting. Please stay safe and steer clear of this post if you have these triggers.* January 31: “How do you see and define yourself? “I see a broken woman with tons of health problems. I see a woman who…
In my last entry, I mentioned at the end that endometriosis wasn’t done with me yet. Well, it might be, but not the lasting effects that endometriosis can have on the body.
I sat on the toilet in our hotel room, slumped over with my chest on my thighs, desperately wishing it would end so I could get some sleep. Alas, no sleep would come until I was rendered unconscious in the OR by the mechanisms of modern medicine several hours later. The clock was slowly…
Where does anyone in the 21st century turn to for information? The Internet, of course. Which takes us back to where we left off at the end of my last post. Hopeless, in more pain every day than anyone should have to endure, and looking for support from people who could relate to what I…
I don’t know when or how I first developed endometriosis. No one really knows, as most people with endometriosis fight through years of misdiagnosis after misdiagnosis before finally, after ten years or so, landing on the correct diagnosis. Theories abound regarding how this disease arises, from an outdated and pretty well debunked theory by…
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” I wish I could claim credit for that statement, but it belongs to an individual named Flannery O’Conner (if that ain’t Irish for you…) But those words sum up the main reason I decided to start a blog. I…