A driving catalyst for our blog can be summed up in one word: PAIN. And I do not mean emotional or psychological pain, however that is in fact at the root of this story, but I would be getting ahead of myself. No, the pain I am referring to is physical, gut wrenching, drop you to your knees and crying for your momma pain. It didn't help that it happened to be in the most sensitive, elusive, and intimate part of the female body. Yes, I am referring to just where you may have been guessing. One could say that it all started in October of 2019, but truth be told it was actually manifested over a decade prior in 2008. But to not confuse, we will begin with the acute and devastating pain that hit me like a ton of bricks close to 1 year ago. In October of last year, after a particularly stressful period of my life, I woke up one morning with that "not quite right" feeling in my vaginal area. Thinking it would go away, I tried to shrug it off, telling myself it would get better....