Meet Team Kentucky State Representative, Tiffany Eddins

RISING STARS IN ENDOMETRIOSIS ACTIVISM

We are excited to introduce Tiffany Eddins, a dedicated Endometriosis Activist, originally from Alabama, but now residing in Kentucky. Tiffany is not only an EndoMarch Founding Member and President of the Kentucky EndoMarch Chapter, but she’s now on board to travel to the Kentucky State Capitol of Frankfort as State Representative for Endo Advocacy Day 2020. You can learn more about Tiffany below and be sure to follow her on the Team Kentucky Facebook group or on Instagram!

RECRUITING FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVES

If you would like to travel to your State Capitol to meet with elected officials as part of next year’s Endo Advocacy Day (Friday, March 27, 2020), just click here to schedule a phone appointment with one of our EndoMarch team members so that you can learn more. In the interim, you can click here to keep track of how many State Representatives we have on board already.

ABOUT TIFFANY EDDINS

I was born in Opelika, Alabama in 1984, but I currently reside in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. I am a full-time college student, majoring in Education and a home-school mom to my 9-year-old amazing son, Liam. I am the Kentucky Chapter President and a founding member of the Worldwide EndoMarch. 

My Endo journey started when I was 11 and continued with misdiagnosis after misdiagnoses until 2013 at the age of 28, when I had to undergo an emergency robotic surgery due to a rapidly growing Endometrial tumor in my left ovary that had adhered to my colon. I was diagnosed with Stage IV Endometriosis and woke up to a complete hysterectomy due to full coverage of adhesions on my uterus, overies and tubes. It was devastating. But I finally had a diagnosis. This is where my Endo journey began with Worldwide EndoMarch, as I was doing research to find out what exactly this diagnosis meant.

While the pain that I suffer from today is different from what it was before the surgery, I now have a whole new onslaught of medical issues as a result of the endometriosis and the menopause that goes along with the hysterectomy. This disease has impacted every part of my life, it started when I was a young child and has continued through adulthood. My goal is to do everything in my ability to make a difference for girls now and in the future to not have to suffer in silence, as well as not having to suffer without knowledge about what is happening with their bodies.