Ceylan Yeginsu, The New York Times
Published: 30 Jan 2021 04:39 PM BdST
Updated: 30 Jan 2021 04:39 PM BdST A man stands next to a drug store advertisement in Mexicali, a border city in northern Mexico, on Jan 12, 2021. The New York Times
On a cold February morning last year, as she lay curled up in a foetal position on her kitchen floor, Melissa Jackson called her manager at a New Jersey beauty salon to ask for some unpaid time off. );
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It was the sixth consecutive week that the 39-year-old beauty technician was unable to work full time because of the debilitating pain in her pelvis caused by endometriosis, a chronic condition triggered by the growth of uterine tissue outside of the uterus.