ETA: A really regrettable number of transphobes have got hold of this, so, to anyone coming to this who isn't a hateful person, be aware of that.
According to The Guardian, there is a growing medical consensus supporting the idea that there are three different types of endometriosis, which up until recently had all been treated the same. Though all forms of endometriosis involve tissue similar to that found inside uterine walls growing in other parts of the body, this “errant tissue,” as doctors call it, is not always the primary cause of the pain they experience.
For those with the type of endometriosis that causes painful ovarian cysts, surgery is often the best option. However, new research has found that 80 percent of those who suffer from the disease actually have the superficial form—known as peritoneal endometriosis—and their pain is caused by the ways that nerve endings interact with the tissue, rather than the tissue itself.
Because surgery involves doctors slicing through nerve endings in order to cut out that tissue, it’s likely to cause patients more pain in the long run. Often, doctors attempt these surgeries multiple times.
Scientists have known about the different categories of endometriosis for a decade, but they have only received funding for further research in the past five years. And it is only recently that endometriosis has been taken more seriously: Historically, many doctors have not believed patients who report their pain, despite nearly 40 percent of people with endometriosis reporting pain so severe it has resulted in an emergency room visit, according to a 2020 U.K. study...
gansey at 3 AM, bed unmade, sitting in the middle of monmouth surrounded by tiny cardboard buildings and piles of books, finishing the final details on the 300 fox way house while simultaneously researching glendower’s second cousin with a scented candle burning and the high school musical album playing on repeat:
I've arrived in thailand in one piece, and it's so funny to me that the first actor I saw on an ad billboard (it's kind of a fun game I have with myself when I'm here to try & see how many I recognize) was nonkul, aka the actor I'm really starting to stan 🥰
today's addition to my cursed hindunatural (shivanatural?) au, shiva clocks the divorce vibes between dean and cas when he and kali meet up with them to defeat chuck and pulls him aside and goes "don't worry, give it some time. i beheaded our son once, but look at us now, it's like we got married yesterday" and dean's like "??????w h a t ??????"
every race charles and lando are near eachother is a gift from the divine and if this was a ya novel i would not be held back from furiously typing the 5 page meta on how much they push eachother to improve . lando has to get his hands dirty and his elbows out and charles has to show restraint against someone he cant just divebomb past its SOOOO fucking delicious bc the result isnt decided by penalties or dirty tactics its clean its powerful its merciless and it is racing on the very edge