Have you ever watched a child play with a jack-in-the-box? You see them slowly wind the handle. As the music plays they begin to giggle in anticipation of the clown that is about to appear, and then suddenly…POP! The child has a look of surprise as if they didn’t know …
Read More »My Distraction
Baby Boy was born on 1st April 2012 at 10.10am weighing 3.3kg (7lb 4oz) after a very quick birth! I am a very proud mummy. My oldest has taken quite well to being a big brother, although there is sometimes some jealousy when I feed him. Generally though, he has …
Read More »Dependent
One of the things I’ve noticed in all that I’ve read about Endometriosis, whether it be a medical journal article or a blog from a fellow fighter, is the hard topic of a struggle for someone who lives in chronic pain, is the dependency that you develop of prescription pain …
Read More »Special Care
When you have been a cancer patient, doctors are generally a lot more cautious with you. If anything comes back with so much of a sniff of being abormal, everything tends to go into panic mode and no stone is left unturned. That’s how it feels sometimes anyway. I guess this is …
Read More »The Brave Souls Club by Danielle Viverito Book Review
How do you explain to a little girl fighting for her life what it all means? What do you say when a frail 6-year-old little boy asks “Am I going to die?” The Brave Souls Club by Danielle Viverito assists with that very daunting task in a gently written story …
Read More »Beyond the Sunrise
March is Endometriosis awareness month and in honor of that I was thinking about how we, as the fighters, face a month completely dedicated to our battle. Awareness for this disease is not as active as other diseases, such as breast cancer awareness month when the world turns pink. I’m …
Read More »Fibromyalgia and the co-morbid Endometriosis
It’s true that when you get a serious illness, co-morbid illnesses always follow. Now I also have to fight like a girl for Endometriosis. I didn’t see it coming, as I had seen so many doctors for my pelvic pain and had been dismissed (probably for being a girl who …
Read More »Member Spotlight: Meet Shannon
Hey there warrior girls! It’s time for our first Member Spotlight of 2012 and–drum roll please–we are proud to shine the light on Shannon from Toronto,Canada, who sends us all sunshine and smiles. Shannon is a proud member of the Fight Like a Girl Club and blogs over at Living …
Read More »Understanding the Other Side
When you are first diagnosed with Endometriosis it’s hard to understand exactly what’s going on in our bodies but even harder is when you try to explain it to someone else. You can give them a list of symptoms – painful periods, Pain with bowel movements or urination, Excessive bleeding, the list could go …
Read More »Fear
I had an incredible dream early this morning. My dreams are typically interesting, vivid and in color but on a rare occasion I’ll experience a dream that I know I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life. This particular dream was about fear. I wasn’t running from monsters, …
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