Emma Weiland wants teachers and school counsellors in the Kootenays to know about a common and dangerous disease they may have never heard of.
She wants them to know that endometriosis affects one in 10 women worldwide, and that it is excruciatingly painful, commonly misdiagnosed, impossible to cure, hard to treat, and often suffered by school-age women.
“We’re not asking teachers to become doctors,” Weiland says.
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