Heating Pad Review
I hate to break it to you, but there is no such thing as having endometriosis and owning one heating pad. Heating pads are very personal for everyone. Personally, I like moist heat that has a little weight to it.…
Grace McCafferty
My Excision Surgery Prep
Ok, so I am arguably thinking too much about what to do for surgery. I often channel my nerves into making sure I’m organized and trying to come up with a plan. Sounds great, but too much of it leads…
How to Organise the People in your life to best support YOU!
Inner Circle: The friends and family who are with you every step of the way. They ask how your doctors appointments go, how you’re feeling, they heat up your heating pad, and they love you for you. Outer Circle: The…
What is Excision?
Your neighbor hired you to pick all of the carrots in their garden. They offer you two tools: a shovel or a blowtorch. Let’s say you pick the blowtorch. Way more badass. You blowtorch the whole garden, and all of…
Remission: What your hormonal medication is actually doing
When you are suspected to have endometriosis the immediate move your GYN makes is putting you on some sort of hormone: birth control, progesterone, an IUD, or something stronger like a GnRH agonist/antagonist (Lupron, Orilissa, Synarel, etc.). They give you…
My Endo Story
My name is Grace McCafferty. I was diagnosed with endometriosis when I was 16 years old. I have chronic pelvic, leg, hip and low back pain. I also have trouble walking, pain with urinating, frequency and trouble emptying my bladder,…