‘pain associated with ovulation’ Part of me died on the doctor’s table burnt away, scalpel cut, I can feel it in the metal dish. Flesh twitching beneath the surgeon’s knife, abnormal lesions destroyed. I wonder how she can do it, cut someone else’s body, but still blame their period, instead of seeing the chronic illness. Continue reading

‘painful, disabling cramps in the lower abdomen’ Few people feel where their ovaries are. I guess people know the rough placement, they could point and pick them out on a chart. They vaguely know how the misplacement of growing tissue, and of bleeding cysts make the ovaries flood with hormones and make stabbing pain and Continue reading

There is a point on the M6 between junctions 33 and 32 where the 12-mile stretch opens into the ink-black night and you’re driving through constellations of LED headlights. The stars out of your window become the beacons that over-caffeinated drivers navigate by, like argonauts sailing by moonlight. Fleetwood Mac flows through the car as Continue reading