The End

[susandennis]

If I ever get any health issue that requires many repeat doctor visits, I'm saying right now, No. Just going to the doctor's office is so many layers of annoying. I'm done. Call hospice.

I got there early and then the chipper little nurse with the oh so annoying high pitched voice "so, have any plans for later today??" waited until 15 minutes after the appointed time to call me in. Did did say, when she got the giant bandage off and saw the spot "Oh, wow, you are a very fast healer!" She got the stitches out and then put on about 10 steri strips - very haphazardly as it turned out. "these will come off on their own" At least that part was true. Half were off before I got home.

I took off the rest and put on one of my padded gel bandaids.

I am done with doctors. Done. The end. It's a good thing that my next annual checkup is not until next March. If it were any sooner, I'd just skip it.

Moving on... I did stop at Grocery Outlet on the way home. Gloriously, I did not find my usual cart full of stuff and got out under $30 with a couple of interesting things and the mayonnaise I went in for.

Now I'm home and done for the day.

Last night I saw on Twitter when the news broke about the Roe v. Wade decision overturn by the Supreme Court. I am oh so very grateful to live in Washington State. Minutes after the initial tweet, the governor added his own.



I don't feel like we are back in the dark ages before Roe V Wade (and, trust me, they were dark) and abortion is not something that will ever touch me directly again but still...

And for me and my now ostrich ways, today will be the usual.

I have more Chelsea Detective episodes to watch and ballgame at 5

Comments

[days_unfolding]

The Supreme Court is overturning Roe vs. Wade? Holy. Cow. (Runs off to look at the news.)

[heartonsnow]

I am exactly the same with doctors, it is too stressful to try to get treatment.

[susandennis]

❤️

[kaishin108]

It is crazy and heartbreaking to go back in time 50 years. Back to coat hangers and alleys for many, sigh.

[greghousesgf]

this scares the hell out of me (for other people, I had a hysterectomy years ago)

[taz_39]

Gosh just ANYTHING to avoid asking men to keep it in their pants, huh!

Honestly.

Also, healthcare is such a joy. Sigh.

[susandennis]

i just saw a tweet by a guy who suggests, since they are reversible, giving all males vasectomies and reversing them ONLY when they prove suitable for fatherhood.

works for me

[taz_39]

If the US had health care this might be a viable option.

As it is, one man can get MANY women pregnant. Yet women are the ones blamed, and controlled, and held responsible for the sex, which is in most cases a 50/50 decision by BOTH involved parties. This has always disgusted me. Women have to take the pills; women have to make the choice to keep the baby and face stigma or abort the baby and face stigma; women have to alter their bodies to accommodate the male sex drive; women have to bear the consequences of the male sex drive.

Personally I am not a goddamned herd animal (pardon language but argh) and am thankful to live in a time where I can get away with crossing my legs and that being the end of it. But other women are not so lucky, and it is so horrible that women continue to be treated like sub-human when it comes to sex and childbirth. Men have just as much responsibility for their part in creating a baby, and I can only hope that someday they'll actually bear that responsibility instead of dumping it onto women like we're pack mules or gym socks to be used and thrown in a corner.

[gracegiver]

"If I ever get any health issue that requires many repeat doctor visits, I'm saying right now, No. Just going to the doctor's office is so many layers of annoying. I'm done. Call hospice."

I love you so much. (Happy smile giffy thing) when I get near the computer, I'll tell you about the Poop Bucket I got in the mail.

[susandennis]

Did you get a Cologuard?? My insurance sent me one of those last year or the year before. I gave it a minute's thought. If I took it and it came back 'fine', then what would I change? Nothing. If it came back 'problem' then my doctor and the insurance company and probably Cologuard would hound me until a colonoscopy would be better than their hounding and that would be just the tip of the ohmyfuckinggod iceberg.

Nope Nope Nope. I didn't even bring it upstairs. I tossed it into the trash by the mailboxes.

Maybe I do need to get Hospice on my speed dial.

[gracegiver]

Yes! A Cologuard kit. It just showed up on my doorstep. I read it's 40% accurate. And it cost $500. I believe my insurance would cover it but what's interesting is all the text messages, like about six in the past two weeks, were from the company, NOT my doctor. Pissed me off.

I thought I should return it but yeah, I'd rather just toss it in the trash.

[susandennis]

Oh!! I forgot about all the crap from the company. I blocked 'em and reported them as spam. Yes trash.

[adafrog]

I hear you on the ostrich ways. I get through my days like that.

[desdemonaspace]

I remember before Roe v. Wade. Women and girls who could afford it flew to New York if they wanted an abortion. Key words being who could afford it.

[cdayzee]

I think as we age, a lot of us adopt this attitude. My mom definitely currently has it & I've slowly been working my way there. Mine stems from years of being ignored & left to my own devices.

When will this sink in?

[ng_moonmoth]

(I'm pretty sure it won't, given the intense resistance of those lining up to shove Roe v. Wade off any handy cliff, but...)

I don't recall right now where I saw it, but there is apparently academic research showing that the only statistically significant effect of restricting access to abortion is that more women die. (Just for starters, live birth has a higher per-capita death rate than even surgical abortion.) But until that idea takes hold enough that confronting the woman-haters who are trying to ram all this through the government branches they infest will do some good, the battle to retain bodily autonomy for all still rages.

I wonder what would happen if those who shout "baby-killer" at people entering facilities where medical professionals are trying to do their best for the people who need their services faced equally angry shouts of "woman-killer" back at them.