When I was around 12, my mom started going through menopause. I remember the heavy bleeding that seemed like the antithesis of what it meant to be menopausal, and I remember her talking about fibroids. “It’s the fibroids that are making me miserable. I’m bleeding like a stuck pig!” (She’s from Queens, folks. That second line is a direct quote, seared in…
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