I remember this because the doctor talked about golf. The room was filled with three nurses, a couple residents and a doctor casually dressed to hit the tees after lunch, the procedure took place on a Friday. Knowing it was a teaching hospital, I was prepared for an audience. I thought it was going to be like a pap smear. They told me to take some ibuprofen before the visit and that the procedure would be quick, routine, and that it would feel like a period cramp. Referred by my gynecologist, I knew that no cost would be covered by my high-deductible insurance plan, but I didn’t care. My first sonohysterogram was performed as a routine procedure required for clients to be accepted by a fertility clinic located in my community hospital system.
I just wasn’t expecting to find that business model in the office of healthcare providers. You find a vulnerability and you exploit the hell out of it until the person sitting on the other side of the table will pay you anything to flip the card of destiny.
The person who I was the day before, the one that sighed in relief when the first drop of blood proved I wasn’t pregnant, became a stranger who crashed at the first twinge of a cramp.Īny good fortune teller knows that you hook your paying customers by their emotions. I was thirty when I started trying to conceive. I didn’t care who knew that I was bleeding, I just knew that I needed help. I work with horses and those suckers will hurt you every way possible, but pain is an excellent leveler of propriety. I eventually came clean to my father when I begged him to pick me up from school one day because the pain was so intense and the bleeding so heavy I couldn’t function. My periods were also painful, debilitating. Raised by my father, I used lunch money to bribe friend’s mothers to pick up the necessary supplies. What do Joan of Arc, Saint Marina, Mary Reid and Anne Bonny have in common? Two gave their lives to the church, two were pirates, but each dressed up like men in order to secure knowledge and power that they couldn’t achieve in a dress. Indeed, it is now time for a general awakening.
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