He paused. “Coincidence. The body is strange.”
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 ? navel endometriosis
“It’s textbook,” Dr. Ionescu murmured, almost with wonder. “See these micro-hemorrhages? That’s the bleeding. And here, the cyclical thickening of the stroma.” He paused
Clara felt a strange release. It was a diagnosis. It was real. Tissue from the uterine lining growing where it
Over the next year, Clara became a detective of her own strange navel. The bleeding was cyclical, she realized with a growing, queasy horror. It arrived like clockwork, a day before her period. And it hurt—a deep, cramping, familiar pain. The kind of pain that belonged in her uterus, not two inches above it.