Yes. It's a window to a reality I will never personally experience, and I am grateful for the words of women who are brave and articulate enough to share it. I found how she felt betrayed by her own body poignant, and how jarring and "wrong" menstruation, which before was probably a relatively routine experience felt…

This is sad, but also really fascinating in a clinical sense. Humans love to think that they have control in their lives, but control is so fleeting even in the best cases. Look at how little control we even have over our own bodies.