Day 4: A rollercoaster ride away from home
"All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train." This quote by author Terry Pratchett aptly summarizes the 11 years of my life before I was diagnosed with the chronic illness called endometriosis. Back home in India, having lost all hopes I tried to learn how to live life with the constant pain and fatigue. On days when the pain was really bad I would just stay home and not attend school or college. The comfort of my home, my bed, and my family somehow gave me the strength to lay down and wait for the storm to pass. But on days when I was out of home and my periods unexpectedly decided to show up, all I could do was sit in class squeezing the life out of my lower abdomen, waiting for the lecture to get over so that I could sprint back home. It was a routine I had started getting used to. While I always knew that some day soon I was going to travel halfway across the globe to pursue my dreams, I had ne...

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