When we experience something for the
first time and receive so much value from it, we will welcome again that
experience in our lives, year after year. We will fill our soul with hope and
anticipation and our time would receive precise pinpoints. March 13, 2014 was
the first Million Women March for Endometriosis, an action meant to raise
awareness towards a condition that has managed to slipped unnoticed for too
long. This year, the event will be held on 28th March, so save the
date in your calendar and prepare for the march.
There is no doubt that awareness
movements are gaining momentum with each year that passes, as people around the
world can access information more easy. Media and especially the online social
media play a vital role in connecting remote events around the globe in one
sole voice, louder and easier understood. As our global village is becoming
smaller and smaller, isolated problems, affecting just a small percent of the
population become problems of the whole community. The power of a united voice
can force the hands of decision makers to speed up the allocation of resources.
At the moment, despite the situation has improved from recent years,
endometriosis still receives insufficient coverage and its impact over
population’s health suffers from the sin of underestimation. We are yet not
capable of considering endometriosis a disease worth a glorious fight, and put
it next to the “celebrities” of the medical world like cancer or diabetes. But
we should better ask those who fought and won the battle against endometriosis
and it’s imposed limitation over the capacity to enjoy life. Personnel examples
of success are literally filling the void left by our ignorance, motivating
young women to embrace early detection methods and leave behind any fear.
Endometriosis is currently affecting 200 million women and girls, not to
count cases yet to be confirmed. Each year other millions join this big family.
Aren’t we responsible for putting a stop to the alarming trend? No, we should
not keep endometriosis for ourselves, and suffer in loneliness. Diseases had
travel a long way from being a motif of discrimination and other forms of
social exclusion. You are not less worthy than others and you should never be
afraid to keep the head up and state your problem to the world.
Don’t forget that you should start wearing the yellow ribbon, the symbol
for the fight against endometriosis, from the first day of March. The whole
month is dedicated to actions around the globe meant to raise extra awareness
and continue the legacy of the past year’s event.
Social media is our current weapon of choice for spreading ideas and
reaching deep inside the mind of others. If you feel brave, you could create a
short video, a presentation or just write a few sentences. It doesn’t cost you
anything and it can only help your popularity level. Your intervention can
quickly catch flame inside your circle of friends and there is no better way to
support a cause that largely depends on the number of people that adhere to it.
It helps a lot to know that endometriosis is a condition that affects
women from all layers of society. Even celebrities become victims of something
not completely understood and explained by modern medical science. We all know Whoopi Goldberg and it surely made us
laught at least once. She found out she had endometriosis in the 70's
and undergo a successful medical treatment. From then, she is a passionate
advocate of charitable causes, including that of raising awareness for
endometriosis. Hillary Clinton is probably the most powerful feminine figure
from the US political stage and she has manage to get out from the shadow cast
by her husband great success to the public. Her career as First Lady was marked
by intensive involvement in reforms regarding health issues. Endometriosis was
part of her life experience, as she had trouble conceiving her only child,
Chelsea, born in 1980. The list can go on with many other important public
figures being involved in fights with the silent problem of endometriosis. Your
story could be also a success story and you don’t have to be a celebrity to
share it.
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