Veronica V. Hough is a multidisciplinary artist, advocate, and scholar living in North Carolina. Diagnosed with endometriosis after years of ineffective treatments for related symptoms, she is pursuing a career in healthcare policy analysis. She currently maintains a wellness blog, swingsetwisdom.com, where she blogs about chronic illness, trauma, and the human condition.
In 2019, endometriosis continues to be underfunded, sparsely researched, and misunderstood, particularly when considering its estimated prevalence in 10 to 13 percent of women ages 15 to 49 worldwide.* Many people with endometriosis face a…