Jenna Dvorsky

When going through a bad endometriosis flare or a day of severe pain, the only thing I would want to do is curl up in a ball in my bed. However, during some of my worst days of pain and bleeding my life was too busy to lay in bed all day – just as […]

Today marks exactly one year since I had my first laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis and one year since I received my Stage 4 endometriosis diagnosis. Saying that out loud to myself is honestly crazy, and I cannot believe it has already been a full year since surgery! No matter how much time goes by, February […]

I cannot believe it has already been a year since I started my blog, but what a year its been! In November of 2020 I found out I needed surgery. After going through so many years of being in the unknown, I was actually excited for the opportunity to get answers by having surgery. I […]

“It’s a difficult thing to sit with pain and just be. To sit beside it, acknowledge it and be whole in its presence. To experience pain in that way, I had to constantly remind myself that it wasn’t me. It was just a sensation. I was bigger than the pain and I could withstand it, […]

Yes, I am a medical student aspiring to be a physician. However, I still get nervous and have some fears when I need to see a doctor concerning my endometriosis. Today I had my follow up appointment for an ultrasound I had done last week for pain I have recently been having on my left […]

This past Friday I took my first medical school exam in human anatomy. It was a tough week leading up to the exam – there is so much information to learn and try to study – however, I’m happy it’s over and I now know I can get through it for future exams. When you […]

August 12th marked 6 months out from my laparoscopic surgery back in February. I cannot believe it’s already been half of a year since the endometriosis in my pelvis was removed along with the endometrioma on my left ovary. My surgeon also preformed a presacral neurectomy in which a nerve supplying my uterus was cut […]