Nicky at her fitness studio in Naas
However its effects don’t stop there. Dyspareunia, or painful sex, is something many women with endometriosis live with and is a deeply personal topic, but Nicky wants others to understand the far-reaching complexities of the disorder.
“It’s very disheartening and you can feel very unwomanly. How can you be sexy when he sees your ‘endo belly’, when it’s swollen and bloated? As someone who has always enjoyed sex, when you start to bleed during and after intercourse and pain can last for days afterwards well, it can be nerve-wracking, as you don’t know if it’s going to hurt. But nobody ever told me that that wasn’t normal.
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Hospital Master Professor Michael O Connell said that the doses were administered to family members to ensure they would not be discarded. He added that he now regrets giving the vaccines to staff family members. The decision to use the vaccines that had already been made up was made to ensure that not a single reconstituted vaccine was wasted, he said. Had they not been used they would have been discarded. I was keenly aware of that and throughout the evening and from 9.30pm onward I personally made every effort to prioritise and identify additional frontline workers and followed all measures available to me at the time.