autumngracy:dracoskullonmain:why-i-love-comics:Represent! #4 - “Believe You” (2021)written by Nadira
autumngracy:dracoskullonmain:why-i-love-comics:Represent! #4 - “Believe You” (2021)written by Nadira Jamersonart by Brittney Williams & ANdrew DalhouseThis hits hard. This hits so hard because my fiance fought with doctors for years to get help. She had abdominal pain so severe she’d keel over unable to move for hours, coinciding with her periods. It kept her from working, exercising, even living.And every doctor she saw, male and female, dozens on dozens of doctors said it was just her period and she was fine. Always fine.Crying on the bed unable to sit up? Fine.She’s been suffering since she was 12, twenty years of these pains.It finally ended when she found a doctor willing to perform a total hysterectomy, even as she said “it wont help”.Guess what they discovered when they biopsied the tissue?Cancer. She had cancer forming in the endometrial tissue that was painfully sluffing off every time she had a period. The doctor says it’s recent, but part of me wonders, if it wasn’t. Could she have been dealing with this cancer since she was twelve with the fortune that it was contained by the fact it grew in tissue that wasn’t permanent?After all, the same doctor who said it was recent said “it wont stop the pain, you dont need this”. Shit, she even decided AGAINST PATIENT’S REQUEST, to leave the cervix in (which could have still had cancer in it).Just as this said, she listened to her body and knew something was wrong, but doctors dont seem to.Keep advocating for yourself, you deserve not to suffer! Fight your doctors till you find one who will help and listen.Holy shit -- source link
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