I Wide, They Shut
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| Hanging in no matter what |
Yet, my sistuhs here in my country live in a kind of eyes-ever-shut-tight about this disease I guess it's no longer apt to call The Hidden Epidemic.
When I first started suffering under endometriosis I was thirteen, I'll tell you about it one of these days. I was 19 when I was "sort of" diagnosed with it by an ob-gyn.
I was 19 when I entered the Media fraternity in TnT as a writer, and I used every resource available to me over a decades long career to learn about endo. Believe me, the pickings were slim. But I persevered, because I wanted to know. I still want to know.
And I wanted to teach other women about it. The more I learned the more I wanted to share with my sister-women the information that could help, really help. I still want to teach. I still want to share. I still want to help.
Seek and you will find ... A LOT!
So it would seem easy to just tell them, "Check out the Internet." But there are literally millions of sites. Some of them quite beautiful and didactic: like This Endo Life on thisendolife.com. Except, it took me like fifty searches to lay eyes on that eventually.I guess this is where someone with my specialised research and relaying data skills comes in.
It won't be easy, true; because my fellow women can be obdurate about NOT listening to advice from others who walked the hard path before them, and have come out more knowing for it. Especially home here.
I'm saying this from experience, remembering how often I wrote about endo or highlighted it on my TV talk show, interviewed experts, tried to start support groups, only to be met by a stoic sort of "Yeah, but what do you know?" attitude from women who were actually suffering and asking me for advice.
It's a third world thing, maybe: shunning the vital message because you think you're smarter than the messenger.
Still, somebody has got to reach a hand of help out. Somebody has to keep reaching that hand out. There'll be people who will reach back and hold on. That's how communities of support are formed.
I started this blog finally. I will keep on keeping on.
Just allow me to say thank you and a warm Trinbago BIG UP to all the people out in this wonderful world who feel like I do, and are fighting the good fight by freely giving information, education and love. You keep on keeping on, too!
In beauty may you walk
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