Who is Diane Morgan and why is she writing about something other than food?
You may know me as a food writer whose had a forty-year career writing cookbooks, columns, and articles about food. My treasured topics include Thanksgiving, salmon, and my deep-dive into root vegetables with my cookbook, Roots. My love of food hasn’t wained for one second, but at this stage in my career I choose to cook for personal interest which gives me infinite pleasure and offers up creativity and exploration without deadlines!!
Now, on Substack, I am taking a pivot.
In the last couple of years I have been writing personal essays on a completely different topic, though I haven’t shared. To be honest, I have not been brave enough to share. My subject matter seemed to taboo, way more taboo than menopause, and it wasn’t for me to talk about publicly. Or, that’s what I told myself—until now.
Like a cauldron that begins with a low bubbling brew until it eventually boils over, something kept pushing me to share beyond the pages of my journal.
So, it’s time for me to talk about Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP)—a medical condition which (it turns out) afflicts a huge number of new moms, moms with multiple births, and post menopausal women. When I was finally diagnosed with this condition it left me feeling very much alone. That is, until I started talking about it, and researching it, and finding my way to a private group on Facebook with almost twenty-thousand women signed up. Yes, that many. It astonished me.
My personal journey dealing with POP has been challenging, difficult, embarrassing, depressing, and funny at times—in a laughing through your tears kind of way.
In this newsletter I plan to write about my own journey, interview others with POP, interview physical therapists who specialize in pelvic floor PT, and the Urogynecologist who performed my surgery. Let’s break this silence and share—breaking a taboo and empowering other women.
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