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Endometriosis Awareness Month. 💛 It’s almost Endometriosis Awareness Month. 💛 It’s almost over, and yet it’s taken me this long to find the courage to post.

I used to post much more about having #endometriosis but I stopped. It’s easier to share about something difficult when you’re on the other side, and much harder when you’re still going through it.

My journey with endometriosis has been very intense over the last year. And in late February, I found out the excision surgery I’d waited 8 months for would not be happening. My surgeon, the only @icarebetter surgeon in Michigan, who had been on medical leave, was retiring.

March has been hard. Coming to terms with my canceled excision, making next steps, including sending my records to the Center for Endometriosis in Georgia.

While I’ve been in my own bubble, I’ve also been watching all the amazing advocacy efforts here on Instagram from #endowarriors (some tagged here, follow them!), educating myself further, and totally in awe today of the @icarebetter campaign to get us another specialist in Michigan. 

So in honour of #endometriosisawarenessmonth I thought I’d share this update, and some photos of what my year (and I’m guessing the year of many many people with endo) has really looked like, off Instagram.

1. Erythema ab igne or my burns from long term heating pad use

2. Said heating pad

3. Weekly pelvic physical therapy for 6 months 

4. Dry needling with electrical stimulation for pain

5. Wires from my biofeedback training to retrain my hypertonic muscles due to long term pain

6. Waiting at my surgeon’s office last July

7. Dan’s heating pad that he brought me for quarantine in the U.K.

In addition, here’s your reminder that endometriosis affects 1 in 10 people born with a uterus, it can be found anywhere in the body including the lungs and brain, and it takes 7-10 years for a diagnosis and longer than that for expert treatment.
It snowed 10 inches in Michigan overnight so I’m It snowed 10 inches in Michigan overnight so I’m looking through Sri Lanka photos from this time last year and calling it therapy 😂 How are my other winter storm people doing?!
First post of 2021 and it’s the same old me... b First post of 2021 and it’s the same old me... but ~fully vaccinated~ 🥰

Pro tip- if you are in the USA and want your vaccine sooner than later, Walgreens and many pharmacies are offering daily vaccines to the general public when they have extras/cancellations from healthcare workers. Give your local pharmacy a call! It’s not cutting the line, it’s reducing wasted vaccines ❤️
VACCINATED!! 🎉 VACCINATED!! 🎉
Seven years! ❤️🇺🇸🇬🇧🎃 Seven years! ❤️🇺🇸🇬🇧🎃
Little did we know, around the corner from this cu Little did we know, around the corner from this cute house is a place called THE DEVIL’s ARSE. 😂 England, whyyy?!!

Speaking of the devil’s arse, how are my fellow Americans feeling right now?

I, for one, talked about politics in my therapy session for the first time 😅
Endometriosis Awareness Month. 💛 It’s almost Endometriosis Awareness Month. 💛 It’s almost over, and yet it’s taken me this long to find the courage to post.

I used to post much more about having #endometriosis but I stopped. It’s easier to share about something difficult when you’re on the other side, and much harder when you’re still going through it.

My journey with endometriosis has been very intense over the last year. And in late February, I found out the excision surgery I’d waited 8 months for would not be happening. My surgeon, the only @icarebetter surgeon in Michigan, who had been on medical leave, was retiring.

March has been hard. Coming to terms with my canceled excision, making next steps, including sending my records to the Center for Endometriosis in Georgia.

While I’ve been in my own bubble, I’ve also been watching all the amazing advocacy efforts here on Instagram from #endowarriors (some tagged here, follow them!), educating myself further, and totally in awe today of the @icarebetter campaign to get us another specialist in Michigan. 

So in honour of #endometriosisawarenessmonth I thought I’d share this update, and some photos of what my year (and I’m guessing the year of many many people with endo) has really looked like, off Instagram.

1. Erythema ab igne or my burns from long term heating pad use

2. Said heating pad

3. Weekly pelvic physical therapy for 6 months 

4. Dry needling with electrical stimulation for pain

5. Wires from my biofeedback training to retrain my hypertonic muscles due to long term pain

6. Waiting at my surgeon’s office last July

7. Dan’s heating pad that he brought me for quarantine in the U.K.

In addition, here’s your reminder that endometriosis affects 1 in 10 people born with a uterus, it can be found anywhere in the body including the lungs and brain, and it takes 7-10 years for a diagnosis and longer than that for expert treatment.
It snowed 10 inches in Michigan overnight so I’m It snowed 10 inches in Michigan overnight so I’m looking through Sri Lanka photos from this time last year and calling it therapy 😂 How are my other winter storm people doing?!
First post of 2021 and it’s the same old me... b First post of 2021 and it’s the same old me... but ~fully vaccinated~ 🥰

Pro tip- if you are in the USA and want your vaccine sooner than later, Walgreens and many pharmacies are offering daily vaccines to the general public when they have extras/cancellations from healthcare workers. Give your local pharmacy a call! It’s not cutting the line, it’s reducing wasted vaccines ❤️
VACCINATED!! 🎉 VACCINATED!! 🎉
Seven years! ❤️🇺🇸🇬🇧🎃 Seven years! ❤️🇺🇸🇬🇧🎃
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