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Endometriosis Foundation of America continues the awareness and education of our March Awareness Month into April with short videos by Padma Lakshmi, Allison Williams and so on.

Here are a few videos from the Blossom Ball this year.  Start each one individually because it really annoys me when a video starts as soon as I click on a site and won't stop.  They're all short and sweet.  Especially the one on the far right. Allison Williams' letter to endo for Lena Duncan.  Enjoy. Endometriosis Foundation of America from Endofound on Vimeo . In case you don't know who Allison Williams is, like I didn't: Allison Williams Actress Allison Williams is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She is best known for her role as Marnie Michaels on the HBO comedy-drama series Girls. Williams was born and raised in New Canaan, Connecticut, and is the daughter of former NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams and Jane Gillan Stoddard, a T… Wikipedia IMDb Born: Apr 13, 1988 (age 28) · New Canaan, CT Height: 5' 6" (1.67 m) Spouse: Ricky Van Veen (m. 2015) I would like to post more s...

EndoTruths: Vital Messages to the Medical Community from Endometriosis Patients

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March is National Endometriosis Awareness Month

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MARCH BLOGGING MADNESS FOR ENDOMETRIOSIS AWARENESS Please sign The Petition to Create Endometriosis Awareness and Understanding . I have Endometriosis. Thankfully, I believe I've made it to menopause with most of my female organs intact. I lost my left ovary to an endometrioma in 2001 and the resulting side effects from referred pain caused by Fibromyalgia started my saga of being unable to work full time and permanently. Hysterectomy is not always (or even very often) the answer for Endo. I'm really glad I realized this way back when I was diagnosed, in 1989. Plenty of docs would have given all or part of my anatomy the heave-ho, in spite of the fact that back then the statistics were that hysterectomy only actually helped with endometriosis about 50% of the time. There's still the possibility that the Endo will grow back. And if you do have to have a "hissy" (as the nurse who attended to me when I had my diagnostic laparoscopy called it) then you're stu...