Oct 12, 2026 · 47 min · 11 segments
**I’ve had 34 surgeries on my reproductive organs, and for years doctors told me it was just heavy periods.** Today, I’m telling you the whole story. In this raw episode of Tell Me About It, I share…
Kate MuirHost
So I guess [laughs] when we discuss infertility or when we talk about, you know, all of that, I guess it started when I got my period, which for me was incredibly early.
And back then we lived across the road from the school, and I remember being in Mrs. Chopp's class, she was the best teacher ever, and running home from school and not knowing what was happening and thinking I was gonna die, obviously.
When you're bleeding, and back then I didn't really know anything about the anatomy, it wasn't, it wasn't a discussion.
And even, I don't know if this was the same for you guys, because I got my period so young, the school had to do sex ed, and they had to talk about it, but even when they did, it was about like men and women have sex and have babies, and you know, don't ever have sex, just abstain because you'll always have babies.
And God, all these years of fucking, [laughs] you know, pills and contraception and all these things, and had I have known the whole time it was gonna be this fucking difficult, I probably could have rid of my body of all of it.
But it was also a lot about male orgasm and male climax and, and men and, and masturbation with men, and not a lot about women and not actually a lot about periods, not a lot about consent.
Just no real information of what it was meant to be like and what it was meant to feel like and, and what to expect and, and you know.
I know everybody's different, and I know that can be very vast, but in the same way it's ...
Had we have had that information, I think all of us probably would have had a lot more functional sex lives, you know, early on in our lives.
You know, and we also would've been so much more aware of our bodies and what to expect and all these things that are going on and, yeah, it's just a lot.
We were a grade three, grade four class too, so when you had mixed classes like that, being at the top end was a little bit different too.
Since the day that I got my period, they have been heavy, gross, revolting, disgusting, clotty, painful.
So I guess [laughs] when we discuss infertility or when we talk about, you know, all of that, I guess it started when I got my period, which for me was incredibly early.
And back then we lived across the road from the school, and I remember being in Mrs. Chopp's class, she was the best teacher ever, and running home from school and not knowing what was happening and thinking I was gonna die, obviously.
When you're bleeding, and back then I didn't really know anything about the anatomy, it wasn't, it wasn't a discussion.
And even, I don't know if this was the same for you guys, because I got my period so young, the school had to do sex ed, and they had to talk about it, but even when they did, it was about like men and women have sex and have babies, and you know, don't ever have sex, just abstain because you'll always have babies.
And God, all these years of fucking, [laughs] you know, pills and contraception and all these things, and had I have known the whole time it was gonna be this fucking difficult, I probably could have rid of my body of all of it.
But it was also a lot about male orgasm and male climax and, and men and, and masturbation with men, and not a lot about women and not actually a lot about periods, not a lot about consent.
Just no real information of what it was meant to be like and what it was meant to feel like and, and what to expect and, and you know.
I know everybody's different, and I know that can be very vast, but in the same way it's ...
Had we have had that information, I think all of us probably would have had a lot more functional sex lives, you know, early on in our lives.
You know, and we also would've been so much more aware of our bodies and what to expect and all these things that are going on and, yeah, it's just a lot.
We were a grade three, grade four class too, so when you had mixed classes like that, being at the top end was a little bit different too.
Since the day that I got my period, they have been heavy, gross, revolting, disgusting, clotty, painful.
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