A million years ago, during my undergraduate years, one of my assignments was to watch a surgery (pre-op, intra-op, and post-op) and write about it.
My class mates jumped at the first appendectomies they could find, but I wanted something interesting. I asked around about upcoming events and one nurse failed to let me down.
“There’s a vaginoplasty happening in about an hour.”
I have not been sick in my first couple semesters of college until today. I couldn't even tell you how I have the energy to type this, since I look and feel like death, but it seems to be an important issue.
In addition to the "feminine problem" that needed to be addressed, I also got hit with a terrible case of the flu. This (as crazy as it sounds) was great because I was able to get into the doctor on Monday without lies, embarassment or invasion of privacy, and take care of myself for once.
I don't know if you have heard of the movie Sikko, but if you haven't it's a must see. It's not a chick flick or horror movie it's an instructional video about the health care system in the United states. It talks about how more than half of the American population has no insurance and how a lot of people don’t have enough money to see a doctor.
I was watching yet ANOTHER re-run of America's Next Top Model today, you know, Cycle 3 with EVA. (I was rooting for Amanda the whole time, but whatever ;) and Amanda's perspective on life was just intrigueing. When she made that comment like, "I appreciate every sunrise, every drop of dew on every leaf because one day I will be completely blind," that really threw me back.
I never cared much about health insurance growing up. It was always there, but I was never one of those kids who was always breaking something. In the military, it was always there too, but I never cared much about having it. I mean, who wanted to go to those military quack doctors anyway; you go in coughing up blood and they send you out the door with some tylenol. Now, really!
The U.S. healthcare system becomes a more embarrassing disaster each year…
I've been pretty ill for the past... oh... six months or so. By "pretty ill" I mean I am usually physically unable to eat. I have no appetite whatsoever and randomly get nauseas or start puking my guts up even when I haven't eaten anything in the past couple days.
