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Carys lived with endometriosis pain for decades, then everything…

Carys Thurlby says surgery ended pain she had come to treat as ordinary; her story is a reminder that constant pain should be checked, not endured.

On air: Kenji Moonfield and Dale Bearman on The Weekend Shift
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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHere it is, the story we hinted at: Carys Thurlby lived with endometriosis pain for decades, and says intense pain had become her normal.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorDecades. Of pain she'd stopped questioning.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat's the part that sticks. When it never lets up, you stop calling it pain. You just call it Tuesday.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd then surgery.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSurgery changed her life, according to the BBC. Her normal stopped being the pain.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorBrilliant. Though it took decades to get there.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentDecades of being told, or telling herself, that this is just how it is.

  8. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorUsually I'm the one predicting doom. This is the rare story where the ending's good.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWho are you?

  10. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorDon't get used to it. I'll be gloomy again by the next segment.

  11. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThere's the Dale we know and tolerate.

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