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 »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 »A New Year, A New Hope for a Cure.
I want to talk about the battle that you go through and the hard decisions you have to make when you are living with Endometriosis. As we face a new year my resolutions are simple. Take care of myself, fight with all I have against this disease and pray for a …
Read More »Cookies, Cakes and Endo, OH MY! Surviving the Holidays
It’s that time of the year! The holidays! As I type and I was thinking of all you wonderful ladies out there. I think this time of the year is wonderful. It’s one of my favorite times but it can also be one of the hardest. You get busy and …
Read More »The Stages of Grief
I’m taking a subject that wasn’t what I had originally planned on writing about but the more I thought about it the more I thought that it’s something that I need to share with all of you. The subject is grief. When we think of grief we usually associate that with dying, but …
Read More »When You Feel Like Your World Has Fallen Apart
Hi everyone! I’m Rachel and I fight Endometriosis. As a new Power Writer for FLAGC I thought I would just do an introduction and tell you my story so you can get to know me a little 🙂 At age 12 I started having horrible stomach pain to the point I …
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