Well, the gynecologist explained the snare drum perpetually playing in my pelvis: benign fasciculations. Everyone's had an eyelid twitch: these are pelvic eyelid twitches.
And like an eyelid twitch, anxiety can set them off. I don't remember any anxiety, but I think my anxiety awareness is defective. Doctors keep telling me I have anxiety. I don't see myself as an anxious person, but perhaps that's because I compare myself with truly anxious people I know.
There's one good thing about having ones pelvis twitch, and it is not what you think. It’s that the prognosis is excellent. After seven years 50% of people polled said it got better, and only four percent said it was worse.
Speaking of the gynecologist, he has been absorbed into our Barnes-Jewish-Christian healthcare monolith. BJC is the biggest employer in Saint Louis, bigger even than Boeing.
In the 1990's Barnes Hospital merged with Jewish Hospital, then they linked up with the two North County Christian Hospitals, forming BJC Healthcare from Barnes Hospital, Jewish Hospital, and Christian Hospital.
I remember how pre-merger, Mom (and perhaps all Saint Louisans) referred to Barnes. When Mom when to Barnes for her back surgery, she referred to it as the Atheist Hospital, because it was not Jewish or Christian.
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