Kama Money was tired. It was the end of June, she was a teacher-on-call for some high-energy high school students and her grandmother was in hospice. She was “teacher-tired” and didn’t think much of it.
Until July, when she landed in the emergency ward at West Coast General Hospital five times with extreme abdominal pain, bloating and low iron. It wasn’t until the last time, as she waited in tears, that doctors did some blood work and an ultrasound revealed endometriosis and fibroids.
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