Thank you Lord

When I was 12 years old I started my monthly menstrual cycles. At first I was able to deal with it and still have a life. But then it got worse every year. For the last who knows how many years my menstrual cycles would put me in bed for a week or 2 every month. I would flood and have the most excruciatingly painful cramps ever! Caffeine was the only thing that worked for the pain. My cycles would last for 14 days every month, so my general practitioner put me on birth control pills in May to try and shorten it.. The birth control pill took it down to 5 days every month instead of 14. But I was still in bed for that 5 days, and that's such a long time. So my GP put me on the birth control pills continuously, so I wouldn't have a cycle. It helped for 4 months but after that the bleeding wouldn't stop even on the birth control pills. So in September, my general practitioner referred me to a gynecologist. Mind you I had never been to a gynecologist before! I was really scared. I'm always really frightened to see a new doctor. She put me on 2 different birth control pills to stop the bleeding but they made me so sick! The birth control pills gave me very painful headaches and made me really nauseous.

As I look back on that 3 months in bed this song was very relevant to me.