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A Story About Pain

On women, pain, and (not) being heard

Aubrey Hirsch
Sep 13, 2023
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Aubrey Hirsch
Aubrey Hirsch is a writer and illustrator living in New York. Her stories, essays and comics have appeared in The New York Times, Vox, TIME, The Nib, Black Warrior Review, American Short Fiction and elsewhere.
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Kathleen Donohoe
Writes Brooklyn, Writer
Sep 13

I highly recommend the podcast "The Retrievals" from Serial Productions. It is about women who underwent egg retrievals at Yale Fertility Center and reported agonizing pain during the surgery and after. They were all dismissed--until it was discovered that a nurse had been stealing the fentanyl they should have received for pain management.

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KSC Hatch
Writes The Blog of KSCHatch
Sep 13

As someone who only realised I have chronic pain in my early thirties, because I believed 'chronic' meant constant and didn't know that only having four to seven pain free days a month is not, in fact, usual, this kind of thing always hits me.

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