Remembering
Today I rediscovered a post I had made to my Facebook support group one year before my first Endo surgery. My heart aches to recall all those years, month after month after month after year, of pain. At the time I made this post, my body was not tolerating regular meals during my period. It seems shocking to think about it now, but the yearly progression was so steady and ongoing, symptoms morphed into more symptoms until I became physically dysfunctional. After having that initial surgery, the results were a night and day difference. Now I can actually look back and feel shock and dismay at how severe my symptoms had become. What is it that they say about the frog and the boiling water? I am eternally grateful that I have a before and after story. If you're still in the before phase of your story, keep hanging on. There's hope and there can be light at the end of the tunnel. Don't every give up. Please go to the Nancy's Nook Endo group on FB and read all you can. The...