Tag: heavy periods

• Trolling for a Cause

  Okay, full disclosure: in my day, ‘trolling’ was either dropping a baited fishing line in the water behind the boat as you cruised, or watching out for Billy Goat Gruff villains under the next bridge. I didn’t realize just how much I was in need of a more recent update. I mean why does everything…

  gozzter

  May 24, 2017

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  BBC news, blogging, connotative, Dami Olonisakin, denotative, denotatives, diktat, endometrial ablation, endometrial biopsy, heavy periods, hysterectomy, internet bullying, internet shell, menorrhagia, metaphors, online anonymity, sex and relationship blog, side effects, treatment regimes, trolling, Twitter, women’s health

• Digiphilia

  My computer seems to be constantly doing things behind my back, or under my fingers. One minute it’s performing some sort of update, the next, applying a patch or pretending to, at any rate. I have to trust that whoever makes the little signs that pop up is honest and doing things in my best interests.…

  gozzter

  November 4, 2015

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  angst, app, backup, busy, computers, heavy periods, irregular periods, memory, password, post-it paper, protection racket, smart phone, start of period, the Cloud, updates, writing

• Fibroids

  I sometimes prefer to call them leiomyomas -it’s more descriptive of a condition that involves muscle cells- or even fibromas. I said this by way of beginning an explanation to a patient who was sent to me for them; she looked at me as if I had just sworn at her -belittled her condition. I hadn’t meant to… “Hiding behind medical…

  gozzter

  December 7, 2012

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  counselling, fibroids, fibromas, heavy periods, medical ethics, patient choice, women’s health