So this time it’s a thing we address on Planet Noun… Or, depending on how bad you’ve got it, it’s a whole bunch of things….
It’s also about a place that all people encounter during life’s dawning days. The human uterus.
So it’s the last day of Uterine Fibroid Awareness Month… My sister Lea and I know about these benign tumors very well because they’ve been our fairly constant companions—for some YEARS now.
We want to be free of the monsters--that’s what she calls hers-- But we’ve learned to live with them... Mostly in the shadows…mostly quiet about them. But we’re tired and want freedom from the secret.
Hello there….My name is Liz… the host of Planet Noun…
And I have uterine fibroids that beat me up sometimes.
According to a National Institutes of Health fact sheet on Uterine Fibroids:
Most American women will get them sometime during life. They say one study showed by age 50…. 70 percent of white women and 80 percent of African-American women were graced with these bastards.
My sister and I are part of that number.
The fact sheet continues:
“In many cases, fibroids are believed not to cause symptoms, and in such cases women may be unaware they have them.”
We wish ours were docile. But nah, they're all symptomatic all up in this joint.
This is a fragment of our story.
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