Timing (and science!) is everything

So a couple of months on from writing about the overwhelming sensations conjured by a team of researchers, doctors and midwives actually having a plan for investigating and hopefully treating my endometriosis, I still haven’t written about the plan itself. So in theory, that’s what this blog is about but as usual, we’ll see where…

Reading My Broken Vagina by Fran Bushe

Much like with Lara Parker’s Vagina Problems, I don’t think it’s entirely appropriate for me to ‘review’ Fran Bushe’s My Broken Vagina because the content is so close to home. I’ve also seen Bushe’s one-woman show Ad Libido three times, discussed it several times on this blog and written about it during the same module…

Prospects of living with and without endometriosis

Last month, one single doctor’s appointment had three very significant firsts. Two of these firsts, I knew were coming. I spent the days before the appointment trying to dissuade myself of its significance, knowing from past experiences that keeping my expectations low is a necessary assurance. It was impossible though, impossible to deny that this…