Hi everyone, I'm Joanna.

And I'm Jenny.

And this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.

Me and Jenny are not in the best state.

I think I might have a ear infection with my laryngitis.

And Jenny, quote, quote unquote feels like death.

Okay.

But here we are.

I just have a really shitty, one-sided migraine, PMS-E headache thing.

It happens every month.

Oh, to be a woman.

You know, it's interesting.

I went to a female doctor for my female parts. And for years,

I've dealt with really, really bad, really bad period cramps to the point of like kind of passing out a little bit, getting nauseous, like really, really bad.

Like for seven hours every month, I get absolutely ill.

And I was telling the doctor that. And she was like, yeah, that sounds like you have endometriosis.

And I was like, what? She's like, yeah, that those are all the signs. And I'm like, I've been going to doctors for years begging them to tell me what's wrong with me. And they say that it's normal to feel this way.

And it's like surprise.

I deal with me, but I had to take a lady to go in there and be like, yo, this doesn't seem normal.

Looks like you're going through a lot of pain for no reason.

Oh yeah.

I'm sorry, but I would never and I have never gone to a male gynecologist.

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