[cracked]: Navel Endometriosis

Her general practitioner, a tired man named Dr. Ellis, peered at her belly button with a penlight. “It’s probably a minor skin cyst,” he said, typing without looking at her. “Or a vascular anomaly. Keep it clean.”

The image on the screen was tiny, but unmistakable. A small, irregular pocket of tissue, distinct from the abdominal wall, sitting just beneath Clara’s navel like a buried seed. It was surrounded by a haze of inflammation. navel endometriosis

She knew what endometriosis was. Tissue from the uterine lining growing where it shouldn’t—on ovaries, on bowels, on the lining of the pelvis. But in the navel ? Her general practitioner, a tired man named Dr

Desperation drove her to the internet. She typed the words she was afraid to say aloud: Belly button bleeding with period. “Or a vascular anomaly