I typically don’t do this, and i’m not going to make a habit of it, but I feel strongly that this needs to be addressed. I’m calling out CBC News on an article i’ve just found about endometriosis. I’m not out to bash the writer of the article, or the whole network, or any of …
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Erika & The No Good, Very Bad Flare
Recently I experienced the longest flare i’ve had in a very long time. Quite possibly the longest continuous flare i’ve ever had. It lasted about two weeks straight. And when I say straight, I mean straight. It didn’t let up at all. There were days where I looked just as bloated as I felt, and …
My Symptoms
As some of you may have figured out, I have endometriosis. A chronic illness which has been widely disregarded, misunderstood, and underrepresented. One of the biggest “lies” that circulates about endometriosis is that it causes bad cramps. I say “lies” with the quotation marks because technically, it’s true that endometriosis causes bad cramping. However, that …
Why I Think It’s Important to Have Role Models
No matter how old you get, there’s always going to be somebody that you look up to or admire. A role model. A lot of role models are people who have achieved something that you also want to achieve, like a particular set of goals (such as weight, or a how many jelly beans you …
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My Hair is … What Colour?!
If you have hair on your head, i’m guessing you’ve had the urge to do something weird to it before. Or just the urge to dye it. I was something like 11 or 12 when I first got that urge. To be honest it could have been earlier but that was when my parents finally …
“They Won’t Believe Me”
I wanna talk about the voice inside my head. I wanna talk about it because I know that other people hear a similar voice and feel a similar way. When you’re sick, people expect you to look and/or act sick. They expect that when you have the flu, you’re in bed with a lot of …
My Diagnosis
I’ve already wrote “The Bullshit Diagnostic Process“, so there is a lot of overlap between this blog and that one. But I wrote that one mid-August, while going through some stuff, and pre-second surgery and full diagnosis. Rather than amending that, i’m just adding this blog into the mix. So, here it is: I was …
Self-Doubt: A Path to the Dark Side
Do you ever feel like there’s someone else wearing your skin? Taking over your thoughts? I think it’s something that everyone feels from time to time, and the feeling often takes the form of self-doubt. For some people, the feeling is frequent, for others, an occasional occurrence. The weird part is that you can’t always …
This One Is Heavy
This is your first and only warning. If you choose to read on: be warned that I’m talking about a sensitive subject relating to sexual trauma. I am not an overly shy person, usually. And even before I started posting about my endometriosis on Instagram and trying to help people understand, or cope, or just …
Don’t Mistake My Illness for Laziness
One of the biggest problems faces by people with chronic illness is judgement. Hopefully no one is judging you for actually having an illness you can’t control, that is downright stupid. But we do face other kinds of judgements. Firstly, you get the “why are you always sick?” or the “we didn’t ask you because …
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