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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain

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For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women’s health issues

In the fall of 2010, Abby Norman’s strong dancer’s body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs started to sprout from her temples. She used to be many times hospitalized in excruciating pain, but the doctors insisted it used to be a urinary tract infection and sent her home with antibiotics. Unable to get away from bed, much less attend class, Norman dropped out of college and embarked on what would develop into a years-long journey to discover what used to be fallacious with her. It wasn’t until she took matters into her own hands–securing a job in a hospital and educating herself over lunchtime reading within the medical library–that she found an accurate diagnosis of endometriosis.

In Ask Me About My Uterus, Norman describes what it used to be like to have her pain dismissed, to be informed it used to be all in her head, only to be taken seriously when she used to be accompanied by a boyfriend who confirmed that her sexual performance used to be, indeed, compromised. Putting her own trials into a broader historical, sociocultural, and political context, Norman shows that women’s bodies have long been the battleground of a never-ending war for power, keep watch over, medical knowledge, and truth. It is time to refute the belief that being a woman is a preexisting condition.

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