THE ENDOMETRIOSIS COPING ZONE

Dear Doctor

By Liz Violette, who has endometriosis

Do you have a daughter? A wife?
One ugly word could change her whole life.
“Endometriosis,” she tells you the doctor told her
And suddenly nothing will be as it were.

Frustration, misinformation, and pain she will know.
When she asks you, dear doctor, where will you tell her to go?
She'll turn to the expert and you say that is you.

What, dear doctor, will you tell her to do?
Will you tell her to just wait and see?
Will you tell her to just lose her ovary?
Or maybe suggest pregnancy? Hysterectomy?

Would you encourage the use of a drug unsafe or unknown?
Or suggest STRESS or DEPRESSION or some FAULT of her own?
No!!!!

You would, dear doctor, educate the both of you.
You would, dear doctor, advise but listen to.
You would, dear doctor, speak works kind but true.
You could, dear doctor, treat me that way too.

Comment:

While this poem is expressing the deep feeling of a likely sufferer, there are many doctors who go all the way to understand the disease, the physical and psychological aspect and try to address the problems(pain, infertility or both).

Doctors are also a part of the general population and my wife also suffered from endometriosis.

Dr. Wendel Casmsn Guthrie MD