A wake up call for every time that I think I am being a wimp...
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3y ago
This week I have had some bad pain (described in my insta post below) and ended up missing a class at uni because of it. As always I had a voice in the back of my head niggling me, telling me that I was just too weak, being dramatic and a wimp. Looking at the situation from an objective point of view I know that I push through everything and despite dealing with quite a lot in the last six months, that class is the first uni class I have missed and it's kinda insane that I haven't missed more classes (as my friends keep telling me). Anyway, my friend Sarah sent me this video (below the insta ..read more
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3y ago
I haven't updated here in awhile, but I have a few posts planned since a lot has changed since I last posted. If you want more regular posts then follow me on Instagram on @thechroniccaper where I micro-blog on a semi-regular basis ..read more
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International Women's Day
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3y ago
Wearing my favourite phenomenal women Tshirt in honour of IWD I've been struggling a bit around here lately. I've been involved in the endometriosis awareness/support scene pretty much since I was diagnosed in March 2012. I appeared in my newspaper article about endo in May 2012. I met the other Canberra Endometriosis Network co-founders around the same time and we tried to start to get things rolling in the ACT. In 2013 I managed to get endo into Cleo and Cosmo, if only small articles. (Syl Freedman kicked things up a notch a year later.) Later on that year we had our first yoga ..read more
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Modibodi Period Panties: Undies for the Lazy Menstruator
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3y ago
Over the last year I've been trying a variety of reusable menstrual products in the interests of saving money, reducing waste and exposing my body to less harmful substances. I've already been using a menstrual cup and reuseable pads for about a year, and recently I decided to hit a height of laziness by investing in Modibodi Period Panties. A product that promises to literally change nothing in your routine to cope with having a period? No need to worry about changing tampons or sterilising menstrual cups? One less thing to think about when you're trying to make sure you take your painkillers ..read more
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The power of community
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3y ago
Goofing off with some endo sisters during a wine and food fest. It's been hard recently. Work has been stressful, moving continents is never easy and I've had more endo pain again - partly due to the stress and not sticking to my diet as well as I usually do + running out of krill oil last week and not having the time/energy to go buy more from the store (putting in all the detail so you know how much I have to do to keep functioning, and how tiny things can throw me off!) but also I think my endo is growing back. I knew it was going to happen sometime, they didn't get all of it in th ..read more
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The surprising costs of endometriosis
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3y ago
Guest post from my dear friend (who also has endo) Sarah MacLeod. We met through the Canberra Endometriosis Network last year just before I left for the UK and bonded over having the same gynecologist. I want to talk about something that’s not very widely discussed – the financial impact of living with endometriosis. Endometriosis is finally making it into the news! Usually the aspect of infertility is discussed and pain is mentioned, but the financial burden is not. There are a couple of research papers, however I want to give this the personal touch. The one thing that people l ..read more
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Why are we still so silent on endometriosis?
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3y ago
Today is World Autism Awareness Day. It's a day I probably wouldn't have given a second thought if their awareness campaign didn't include taking a selfie while wearing blue, and I hadn’t just dyed my hair blue yesterday. Good marketing ploys aside, it’s important that we learn more about this condition that is so little-understood, so that children can grow up to reach their full potential, and we can empathise with those who interact with society in a way that we don’t understand. I honestly don’t really know much about autism, apart from it having an effect on behaviour and learning ..read more
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Musings {04-12-14}
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3y ago
linking... 5 Red Flags of Endometriosis that Every Doctor and Patient Should Know Seriously. Read this. It's the most comprehensive list of symptoms of endometriosis I have ever seen. You might recognise these symptoms in yourself, your sister, your partner, your daughter. Many women with endometriosis think their symptoms are normal and just put up with them, until they have to go to the emergency room because of the pain (probably thinking they have appendicitis) or they have trouble conceiving. Seven reasons why endo-fatigue causes so much trauma to its sufferers How to make a flight a ..read more
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A plea to doctors everywhere
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3y ago
This is a post I wrote in May of 2013, but for some reason I never actually published it. Reading it now, after finding an amazing gynecologist and, despite moving countries, finding a good GP who just gave me all the scripts I needed right away without challenging, I can still remembering how frustrating and soul-sucking it is to have to stand up for yourself over and over again when you know what is best for your body. On Friday I had an experience with a doctor that is pretty typical of my experiences with doctors over the last ten years (since I stopped using my dad as my doct ..read more
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I've moved to England!
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3y ago
View of the castle on one of the many long walks from my college to town I have taken. So I've arrived in Durham. The last few days have been a hectic rush of trying to get everything sorted over here and settling in. Simple things like making dinner have become so much more challenging (not even factoring in the fact that the supermarket is a 40 min walk away and there is not a non-non-stick pan in sight.) Moving is hard. Everyone knows it is. I used to have a quote on a post it note stuck to my computer at work - "Transition challenges the way you value yourself." I tried to re-f ..read more
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