![]() ![]() ![]() What began as a chronicle of her transition from dancer and student to determined patient grew into a book documenting her experience with a mysterious chronic illness, woven with the flaws she observes in the treatment of a disease that plagues at least one woman in ten.Īn invisible illness, it can elude years of diagnoses by multiple doctors. This narrative – reconstructed from social media posts, journal entries, and emails to professors – forms the opening of Norman’s debut book, Ask Me About My Uterus which recounts her long and agonising battle with the poorly understood pelvic pain disorder called endometriosis. Still debilitated after two trips to the emergency room, where she was prescribed antibiotics and then told she should see a gynaecologist, Norman began to realise she might need to take a leave. ![]() Norman spent the better part of a week willing herself to get better college was the first place she had felt at ease, and her scholarship and means for staying in New York were contingent on keeping up with her classes. “A stabbing pain in my middle, as though I were on the receiving end of an unseen assailant’s invisible knife.” “It was as sudden as a thunderclap,” she writes. ![]() Going through the motions, still mostly asleep, she reached to rinse her hair. O n an unremarkable morning in September of 2010, Abby Norman, a sophomore at Sarah Lawrence College, took a shower. ![]()
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