She closed the session with a direct message to women: Trust your own assessment of what feels abnormal, and don’t dismiss heavy bleeding as routine. Drawing on the familiar airline safety analogy, she reminded the audience to “put your mask before you look after others” – because a woman running on low haemoglobin cannot effectively care for her family either. Importantly, she extended her closing message beyond women themselves, urging the men in every household to check in on the women around them, asking simply, “how are you today” – a small question, she said, that could prompt long-overdue conversations about health long ignored.
