🎄 In 2024, I thought a lot about my pouch of Douglas
The nurse was holding my hand as I opened my eyes. She leant in close. “The operation was a success,” she whispered. “You’ve got endometriosis, but we’ve removed the cells we found. They were in your pouch of Douglas.’ My first response was relief. I had a diagnosis. It wasn’t all in my head. My second was to laugh. Probably in part due to pain relief, but mostly because they’d found endometriosis in my… what? It sounded like something from a Dickens novel: “my pouch of Douglas? Oh, you’ll find it in my sow’s ear purse with my popsy wopsy.”
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