I will post news articles occasionally just to give you more to read and learn. I do not write these news articles, so I trust you to use your own judgment when it comes to how much merit they deserve.
An article I came across at a blog called Endometriosis Update, entitled "Seeing the Light."
The following paragraph is in the information section of the blog:
"Endometriosis is an enigmatic disease, little is known about its origins, but it affects the lives of millions of women around the world. Despite the apparent lack of advancement in the field of endometriosis research, progress is slowly being made. The problem is that this progress is very rarely reported accurately to the public in a way everyone can understand. This Blog aims to report what is going on in the area of endometriosis research in plain and simple terms, so that everyone can keep up to date."
I have recently been thinking about two things and I have only now realized that they are basically the same thing. First, I was thinking about an answer to the question I have been asked by so many people: "What can I do to help?" I don't really have an answer to that because other than love and support, the things I need are medical. Second, I kept thinking about how, on all sorts of websites, I am being inundated by videos of celebrities doing the "ALS Ice Bucket Challenge." I thought that was a cool and fun way to bring a lot of awareness to a terrible disease. So then it hit me... What would be the most helpful would be to find our own "ice bucket challenge" to raise awareness about endometriosis!
After spending some time researching different links, I am happy to say that I finally found that there is an actual Endometriosis Research Center. Its headquarters are located in Florida. I changed my Amazon Smile account to donate to them because they are more in line with what I care about. They have a website: http://www.endocenter.org/ that you can look at if you are interested. I looked around a fair amount but I plan on continuing to see what things are available through their site. For now, I am just glad to see this exists! I have looked for a lot of information on the internet but somehow I missed this site or didn't enter the correct search combination, so I was excited to find it.
There is a lot of information to be found there, but I found this page: http://www.endocenter.org/killercramps.htm contains a LOT of information from basic information to treatment options to even a quiz to help women who suspect they may have endometriosis. So for my post today, I would like you to take a moment and either look at that page since it probably contains one fact you do not know or just peruse the site in general. I did that myself and I think they have one of the better websites. (I will say I went looking to change my Amazon Smile donation site after I looked more into the foundation I had picked and found their website to be severely lacking, and the information outdated. I hope it's just the website, but wow. Not a good sign for people searching for information about endometriosis).
EDIT: There seems to be a formatting problem with this article when I publish it. I don't know why and I can't fix it because it only appears when published. Sorry for the weird look.
I will post news articles occasionally just to give you more to read and learn. I do not write these news articles, so I trust you to use your own judgment when it comes to how much merit they deserve. This one was very interesting to me.
An article I came across at TheNewYorker.com: A Breakthrough In A Disease That No One Likes To Talk About
I don't know if many of you are aware of Amazon Smile. I know I was not until I got a birthday gift from Amazon from my sister which included a card that said "A gift has been made in your name to the endometriosis society." That was just as good as a gift and very cool!! When I asked about it, she told me about Amazon Smile. If you have an account with Amazon.com, you find a cause you care about, pick one of the societies or foundations associated with that cause, and when you purchase anything from Smile.Amazon.Com, a donation will be made to the charity or cause you have chosen.
