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Irene Chias

claps her hands over her ears l ike in the Munch painting “The Scream” after noticing your white pants are changing colors). A cyst is bursting, even if painlessly, and you must go immediately to the ER where you entrust yourself to the first person you encounter, man or woman, in the hopes he or she is at the very least a doctor, and possibly a medical one, at that. That ’s how I meet Michele Rombini , the gynecologist who repairs the damage caused by the secret intruder that had implanted itself in the unseen areas of my nether regions. Michele is a soothing, forty-something guy, to whom I’l l always be grateful for his courtesy and wel l-mannered approach, and for his simple yet scientific explanations of my rebel l ious uterus, which were reassuring without being condescending. Here’s how endometriosis works: the uterine l ining, what gynecologists cal l the endometrium (also known as the dark red mass that forms inside of the uterus over the course of a 28-day menstrual cycle and which constitutes the nourishment for a potential embryo), stops fol lowing the rules and begins to form outside the uterus. On the ovaries, for example, or on the intestines. Now with menstruation, that part of a woman’s l ife that commercials cal l “those days,” the uterine l ining is expel led, and your period – which is actual ly the

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