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Went to Cork tonight for a screening of the documentary #BelowTheBelt with Mr F. What a watch. So many emotions. I've no tears left but I'm so full of rage as well. I'm exhausted coz I sobbed my heart out on the spin home. The shit I went through, the doubt, the accusation of lies & exaggeration from docs that it was all in my head & the immense amount of pain that I was & am in that I was told suck up, all bubbled up again. I talked openly about my story on social media & in..
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CB Uí Foghlú Jun 22, 2024

2/ person for years because it took 17 years for me to be diagnosed & I never want anyone else to go through being fobbed off like I was. It cost me my family. Too much damage to have kids. If they listened to me from 12 year old & on, maybe I would be a Mammy of living children, not Angel babies. Fuck our system. We gotta do better for those who come after us but I'm worn out from the fight.
These lovely ladies were on the panel. Without the lady on the right of the pic, we...

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CB Uí Foghlú Jun 22, 2024

3/ wouldn't have gotten to the point where there's reliable information, guidance & help to try get the best way forward for our own treatment when the Irish health service is a joke & a major let down, still back in the stone ages, unqualified for endo treatment & still misogynistic in their approach. Kathleen King, an amazingly strong woman, who I'm so grateful for. She has been bringing awareness for decades. A warrior. An advocate and so much more...

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CB Uí Foghlú Jun 22, 2024

Thanks to Orla for organising it. I had to leave straight after the panel finished coz if I tried to speak, I would have bawled my eyes out again. Hard to converse through that, it would have been harder to understand me.

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Thank you all for this night

@Cbfoley
No words will do justice... So I'll leave some emojis instead...

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Pixy's Journey

Jun 22, 2024

@Cbfoley
🫂💜🫂 Sending biiiiig hugs!!
It's always so hard when the medics that should be there to support you just don't try and shove your pain/discomfort/problems off like they aren't important or real... 😔
Hope you will be able to relax and settle a bit before you go to sleep. Sending love from me and sweet boops from Arwen! 💜🐾
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