Amber Blackburn, RN

Dating. If you have been in the dating scene lately, you know it is legitimately a crap shoot. It’s almost impossible to meet someone organically. At 39 I’m not going...

The thought of going into an office, lying on a couch, and telling someone your deepest darkest secrets, your traumas, might terrify some people. Thankfully, therapy has changed over the...

Dating in this era is awful. Or at least it has been in my case. Online dating is scary for everyone. You can easily get duped because it’s hard to...

Let me guess: you’ve spent years with abdominal pain that has no reason, or you’ve been told you just need to poop more and to take a laxative. Your periods...

Have you had exploratory laparoscopy surgery to see if endometriosis is the cause of your undiagnosed abdominal or pelvic pain? After this diagnostic surgery, you would need to meet the...

I’ve had pelvic and lower abdominal pain since I was 14, along with intense life-altering cramps. Like most, I wasn’t diagnosed for over a decade. In those years, I researched...

When you’ve been living with a chronic condition or many chronic conditions, it’s fair to assume that you have been told your symptoms are in your head. Especially if you...

Editors Note: This article mentions sensitive topics such as miscarriage, infertility, and mental health. “Depression.” Shhhhhh. Don’t mention the “d” word.  We don’t want anyone to know about anyone else’s...

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage. Babies, babies, babies. The American dream to some, it seems. As the world has planned, once...

Abdominal migraines, IBS, anxiety, constipation, ovarian cysts. These are the things doctors blamed for the abdominal pain I began having at 14 years old (1999).  Every Doctor I saw had...

Being a mother has been my dream since I was a young girl. I loved all babies. Including my only sister, who was born when I was a freshman in...

Being admitted to the hospital is always the last thing you want. But if you live with many chronic illnesses, as I do, it’s better to be prepared. I learned...

"It is OK if all you did today was survive."- Unknown In the world of social media and lives that are portrayed as absolutely perfect, it is so easy to...

Endometriosis is not a well-known or understood condition. What is known is often not totally accurate. When I was diagnosed I felt so alone because no one I knew had it...