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Now that I’ve shared my blog on my social media accounts, I thought I should post and explain why I set this blog up in the first place.
Way back when I was diagnosed in 2007, when I had been told it was endometriosis, and that was all I got from the doctor, I turned to Doctor Google, because that’s what you do, right?!
And then I got scared,and I closed my browser because there were these horrible, scary words like infertility, hysterectomy, painful sex. It was too clinical. Now I know more about the condition, those words aren’t as scary but at 20, reading the word infertility was heartbreaking. Still is but that’s a post for another day.
Even googling now, the misinformation that’s on the NHS website is staggering.
You’d think that I would have written this years ago but I couldn’t. I’ll admit it has taken me a long time to accept my diagnosis and to be fully open about it. Don’t get me wrong, there are aspects that still trouble me 12 years on but I’m stronger now than I was back then.
Now, how this blog actually came to be…As part of Endometriosis Awareness Week 2019, I made it my personal mission to share grid posts on Instagram (@mucktub86) about endometriosis to raise awareness. Don’t worry if you haven’t seen those posts yet, I plan to use some of the images in future blog posts.
I actually had a pretty good response to my endometriosis post and a light bulb appeared.
Why not create a blog which is a safe space to share my endo story and ask others to share their stories on here too anonymously if that’s what they want?
Why not highlight that behind a diagnosis of Endometriosis, there are real women who have to live with this condition and we can’t be summed up by the above screenshot?
And from that one idea, it’s kinda snowballed into more ideas but you’ll have to wait (and please subscribe) to see what they are.
Take care,
Lis x
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