Full Circle Moments

She was twelve years old the first time a doctor told her the pain was normal. It would take seven more years — and seventeen surgeries — before anyone told her the truth.Full Circle Moments is the unflinching, deeply personal memoir of Dr. Jenna Bosi's life with endometriosis — from the emergency room at twelve years old, through the classrooms and hallways she navigated in secret, the medical system that dismissed and doubted her at every turn, the relationships that bent and broke under the weight of chronic illness, and the long, imperfect, necessary work of learning to love a body the world kept telling her was wrong.This is not a story about getting better. It is a story about getting true.Dr. Bosi writes with rare honesty about the experience of chronic illness in adolescence — the isolation, the shame, the grief of watching your peers live freely while your body wages war against you. She writes about the doctors who dismissed her pain as normal, the school system that penalized her for her absences, and the medical examination at age twelve that violated her in ways she has never forgotten. She writes about the years of hospitalizations, the miscarriages, the infertility, the losses that arrived without warning and the grief that followed without a roadmap.And she writes about what came after.The diagnosis that finally gave her pain a name. The therapy that gave her a self. The son who gave her a reason. And the work — the unstoppable, deeply personal, globally reaching work — that gave her a purpose.Dr.Vetterly is the founder of The Village Consulting & Media and The Village Reaches, a humanitarian initiative bringing period products and safety education to women in underserved communities worldwide. She has testified on women's health policy before legislators in New Hampshire and on Capitol Hill. She has been featured on TODAY.com for her lived experience with endometriosis. She knows, firsthand, what it costs a woman to be disbelieved — and she has spent her career making sure fewer women pay that price.Full Circle Moments is for the woman who has spent years trying to convince someone — a doctor, a partner, a friend, herself — that what she is experiencing is real. It is for the woman who has been handed a pamphlet when she needed an answer. It is for the woman who is still in the dark, still waiting, still wondering if maybe they are right and she is wrong.They are not right. She is not wrong. And this book was written for her.Topics include: endometriosis, chronic illness memoir, medical gaslighting, women's health advocacy, infertility and pregnancy loss, complex PTSD, domestic violence awareness, anti-human trafficking, self-advocacy, and the long road to self-love.Perfect for readers of: The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O'Rourke · No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder · Know My Name by Chanel Miller · In the Kingdom of the Sick by Laurie Edwards Read more