In the Next Exam Room
Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa and Brigid share everything with each other - their thoughts, their feelings, even their endometriosis diagnosis.
This week on Hot & Bothered, we explore the trope “Friends to Lovers.” In her writing, Brigid reckons with the way love changes in the transition from friendship to partnership. Together, Vanessa and Brigid wrestle with what they share with friends, what they share with their partners, and the intimacy born from shared pain.
Along the way, Rev. Dr. Matthew Potts returns to shed light on how we ask for care from our partners, and we get our next writing assignment from #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn.
Next week: More love advice and a conversation with advice columnist and entertainment reporter Meredith Goldstein.
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| 0:00.0 | Spoke Media. Not sorry Productions. |
| 0:09.0 | End of Meetriosis is when the tissue that makes up the uterine lining starts showing up on other organs inside of your body. |
| 0:19.0 | Most likely, one in ten women have endometriosis, and many of those women are asymptomatic or of bad periods but can otherwise go about their lives. |
| 0:30.0 | In my case, the uterine lighting attached my hips to my ovaries and completely encased my colon. |
| 0:35.6 | Between those two presentations of the disease, I was in pain whenever I walked and vomited |
| 0:40.4 | daily because food couldn't get processed out of my stomach so would just shoot back up. |
| 0:45.1 | This went on for almost a year. |
| 0:47.4 | Why a whole year? |
| 0:49.1 | Because that is how long it took me to get diagnosed. Hillary Mantel, the Booker Award winning novelist, also has undemetriosis. |
| 0:58.0 | And hers went undiagnosed for so long that it wrapped around her windpipe and permanently damaged her voice. |
| 1:05.2 | When she went to the doctor in the 1970s and told him of daily vomiting, the doctor sent |
| 1:09.8 | her to a psychiatrist. In 2018, when I went to my GP to tell her about my daily |
| 1:16.5 | vomiting she recommended a sleep study and a visit to you guessed it a |
| 1:21.3 | psychiatrist. |
| 1:25.0 | The medical establishment does not take women's pain seriously. |
| 1:29.0 | We know this. |
| 1:30.0 | The dollar amount differential spent researching erectile dysfunction versus endometriosis |
| 1:35.2 | is not worth remarking upon. |
| 1:37.3 | Let's leave it at, if men had endometriosis, they'd not be sent to the psychiatrist for it. There might even be a little blue pill. |
| 1:46.0 | There was one person as I went through this ordeal who understood everything about it. |
| 1:54.0 | She's my friend and one of the loves of my life, Bridget. |
| 1:58.0 | Bridget is our writer this week and she is writing a Friends to Lover's |
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