

Almost Bleeding to Death Monthly Is No Way to Live
Almost Bleeding to Death Monthly Is No Way to Live At age 23, I woke up from an ovarian surgery to the comment, “It’s not cancer, but you have moderate endometriosis. If I were you, I’d get pregnant as soon as possible.” Having only been married for a year, and not yet stable in our financial situation, we just laughed, not really understanding what the doctor meant. And I decided to go right back onto the birth control pill. Five years later, at age 27, on our anniversary tr


Surgical Menopause in Young Women: The Medical Epidemic No One Is Talking About
Surgical Menopause in Young Women: The Medical Epidemic No One Is Talking About They call it “Surgical Menopause”, couldn’t they have come up with a better name for it? Something, really anything else would be preferable to attaching the word “menopause” to a young woman still in her prime, still very much at the start of her story. A word that doesn’t conjure up images of graying ladies sitting around a shuffleboard court in West Palm Beach sipping Arnold Palmers out of fros