At the airport, I bought the electronic version for iBooks, because I didn’t want to wait three days to finish it. I bought Abby’s book in hardcover, so to save weight I did not bring it on a trip. Or if they cannot diagnose her, at least shut up and listen to what she has to say about her own symptoms, and what she’s learned about the disease that’s killing her.Īsk Me About My Uterus (AMAMU) is not precisely a page-turner, but it drew me in and got me hooked. Or if they can’t fix her, correctly diagnose her condition. She is a young woman who is very sick, and would like doctors to fix her. Instead she has spent her entire adult life - and she is not yet thirty - fighting the medical establishment to prove that she is not a hypochondriac, nor a hysteric, nor a fanciful delusional woman who likes to read medical descriptions online. I am not a doctor - but I might have been.” That is not how Abby begins her book - that introduction does not show up until Chapter 7, when she uses it for a presentation she is making to an endometriosis conference - but it should begin any discussion of Abby Norman’s book, because you need to understand that Abby has a brilliant mind that should have been in use for the medical benefit of humanity. A quest to make doctors believe in women’s pain
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