In 1985, Mark joined the Air Force. He was 18 years old. Mark and I met Christmas of 1985 and we were
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They call it “Surgical Menopause”, couldn’t they have come up with a better name for it? Something, really anything else would be
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At age 23, I woke up from an ovarian surgery to the comment, “It’s not cancer, but you have moderate endometriosis. If
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DES was Given to My Mom as a Vitamin
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I was exposed to DES before I was born. My mother was given the medicine while she lived in a Catholic maternity
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My Life with Interstitial Cystitis
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This silent disease can not only take over someone’s body, but can also crumble their world. Interstitial cystitis (IC) is mainly a
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This is a photo of Stephanie Matthews pre-Gardasil. Below is a photo of her in December 2016, while in the hospital. She
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I was one of those lucky women who never suffered any gynecological problems in the 58 years I had my precious female
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Pork and Blue SkyMy first realization upon waking up from the fourteen-day coma was that I craved pork. I was sixteen, I
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