A Story About Pain
audacity.substack.com
Discover more from The Audacity.
Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.
Over 87,000 subscribers
Continue reading
A Story About Pain
On women, pain, and (not) being heard
 | A guest post by
|
12 Comments
10 more comments...Top
New
Community
No posts
A Story About Pain
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.
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.