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“The pain will always be in you — but you will not always be in pain.”

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Author:Abby Norman

“In retrospect, that was the moment I realized my ignorance was going to exacerbate whatever the problem was, and that I had to prescribe myself some kind of medical education, at least as it pertained to my situation.”

Health Patient Healthcare Self Education

Book:Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

Source: Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

“So often we think that the truth is a static entity that exists only in a singular place--a place that we have to find. But I have come to realize that the answers I have been looking for, the truth of my own body, was ever-changing.”

Truth Health Search Chronic Illness Bodies

Book:Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

Source: Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

“I loved you when I left you.”

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Author:Abby Norman

“This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn't the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent.”

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Author:Abby Norman

“I was not a ghost. I was a little girl with needs and wants and allergies. Still, I hung soundlessly, as weightlessly as I could, in the air. The living can haunt a house, too.”

Childhood Invisibility Living Ghost

Book:Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

Source: Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

“I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself.”

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Author:Abby Norman

“Since we all have varying degrees of tolerance for pain, and have equally varied experiences with different types of pain, it makes the scale feel kind of meaningless -- especially when you consider that the person trying to ascertain how much pain the patient is in has his or her own experiences with pain that are thrown into the mix, too. A doctor trying to figure out how much pain a patient is in, when she says it's 'worse than a broken leg,' but 'not as bad as childbirth,' is still only going to be able to guess what that means based on his or her own experiences -- and perceptions -- of pain.”

Pain Pain Tolerance Pain Scale Emergency Medicine

Book:Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

Source: Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

“Since we all have varying degrees of tolerance for pain, and have equally varied experiences with different types of pain, it makes the scale feel kind of meaningless -- especially when you consider that the person trying to ascertain how much pain a patient is in, when she says it's 'worse than a broken leg,' but not as bad as childbirth,' is still only going to be able to guess what that means based on his or her own experience -- and perceptions -- of pain.”

Pain Scale Ask Me About My Uterus

Author:Abby Norman