One Year of #Periodically: Sharing is Caring | #Periodically 27

Fanfare alert: it's been one whole year since I published the first #Periodically blog on Fictitiously Hilary. This marks my 27th blog about my menstrual, gynaecological and all together grossly overshared health. If truth be told, I can't believe it's only been a year, it's been a bit of a mad one. So much has happened in…

Does being ‘anti-pill’ make me a bad feminist? #Periodically 13

As discussed at great length (sorry) in A Tale of Two Pills I consider my relationship with hormonal contraceptives to be over. It is an unpopular opinion, one I've struggled to conclude myself for a long time. In my world, the pill has always been seen as this great feminist tool. It sat on its pedestal throughout…

Recovery & do I Regret Having the Laparoscopy? #Periodically 12

I am now over three weeks post-laparoscopy. I've started working, from home happily, and I could be doing a lot worse. But for the sake of record, I thought I better write about how everything's healing up. Badly, is the answer. In my blog about the surgery itself I included this picture of my stomach's…