{"id":5927,"date":"2015-10-11T07:49:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T11:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5927"},"modified":"2015-09-24T15:54:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T19:54:01","slug":"someone-is-talking-about-endometriosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/someone-is-talking-about-endometriosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone is talking about endometriosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost ten years since I was handed my diagnosis of endometriosis.\u00a0 It felt fake and half hearted, a &#8216;your symptoms match, regardless of anomalies, so here you go&#8217; type of right-off after years, and many different doctors, worth of investigation.\u00a0 The solutions to living with it were even less acceptable in my view, but I went along with them for a while until it came time to go back to the doctor to renew my prescription.\u00a0 It&#8217;s something I live with; something my husband lives with along side of me.\u00a0 It is something that only women who know the other has it too ever talk about.<\/p>\n<p>That warm kind of connection, the &#8216;you know about this too,&#8217; is what I felt when writers on <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\">the Conversation<\/a> started posting about it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/women-with-endometriosis-need-support-not-judgement-37340\">Women with endometriosis need support, not\u00a0judgement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Endometriosis is more than just a 'women\u2019s problem\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/endometriosis-is-more-than-just-a-womens-problem-37609\">Endometriosis is more than just a \u2018women\u2019s problem\u2019 <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Endometriosis linked to ovarian cancer\" href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/endometriosis-linked-to-ovarian-cancer-5556\">Endometriosis linked to ovarian\u00a0cancer <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I haven&#8217;t meantioned <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\">the Conversation<\/a> before, then I have been lax.\u00a0 It is a group blog of academics commenting on current events and it is quickly replacing my news and popular culture consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost ten years since I was handed my diagnosis of endometriosis.\u00a0 It felt fake and half hearted, a &#8216;your symptoms match, regardless of anomalies, so here you go&#8217; type of right-off after years, and many different doctors, worth of investigation.\u00a0 The solutions to living with it were even less acceptable in my view,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/someone-is-talking-about-endometriosis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Someone is talking about endometriosis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[221,178],"class_list":["post-5927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-health","tag-ranting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9623,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/05\/25\/un-authorized-recipes-of-doomed-moviethon-zine\/","url_meta":{"origin":5927,"position":0},"title":"Un-Authorized Recipes of Doomed Moviethon zine","author":"leems","date":"May 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"This past year has felt frustratingly un-productive, but I did finish a thing. 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