Cat HicksMar 17

Because mastodon is like a 99% male audience, I will say this: if you have an aging mother you are in relationship with and care about, do NOT make her go through medical stuff alone. I am skilled & mean enough to fight through medical stuff and even so you would not believe how bad it is. Just accept that you cannot imagine.

I talk to a lot of people's aging moms and they are abandoned & alone even in nice families. I don't care how awkward it is, you have to try to ask them about it.

Show threadPete's Mom 🍉 🇺🇦 ☮️
@grimalkina
The level of gaslighting in healthcare has risen 10,000% (my scientific opinion) over the last decades and 99% of it is directed at women.
And it goes like this:
Your problem is
1) a natural part of aging
2) a natural part of being a woman
3) all in your imagination!
4) you are drug/attention seeking
5) any combination of the above.
Yes! your mum and other women in your lives need support at doctor appointments - the more serious the issue the more critical support is.
Mar 17 at 8:28pmWeb
Show threadHiisikoloartMar 18

@Petesmom @grimalkina
First you are too young to be sick, then too hormonal in your teens, then too far or skinny or something, definitelly hysterical, then again hormonal in your menopause years, and then you lack the hormones until you die. Did I get it right?

I of course personally just left the l train that track was leading to (I am a trans person) and have noticed how concerningly better I am treated by doctors (unless they learn I am trans). Something about being more male-presenting...