How to I get hospital staff to understand my needs?

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At least people are sympathetic toward the furry ones. I mean, it's not much better, but it has to count for something that there are people who care about what happens to mammals. Even the ones who appreciate the lives and worth of furries don't seem to care about the horrors fish experience.

Cartoons don't bother me as much because I know they're not real, that's not really a real clip of real fish really being tortured.

Real-life cruelty (that isn't just made up) really bugs me, though.

Oh my.
Your situation with your mother reminds me so much of my own parents' behaviour.
All this patronizing. *sigh*

Your operation should be on the hospital's timetable already for at least one week (if not longer). Anything else sounds impossible to me.

Write a letter and give it to the personnel in a discrete way. Maybe you can just send your mother away after you've passed the entry procedure at the hospital.

Good luck!

P.S.: I'm wondering how your hemoglobine value recovers this fast if your period is so intense. I have a tendence to hypermenorrhoe too but if my Hb is below 11 or 10 it's not so strong. But I suppose that's off topic.

Hello. I don't know what to suggest but I wanted to wish you luck for your surgery. I hope it goes well, it's not stressful and the doctors respect your needs.

just to clear up a few points of misinformation...

no, they do not grow babies for stem cells and then kill them. not even from donated eggs.

you do not retain a period with all forms of birth control. some forms can remove it entirely or reduce the frequency. this depends on the form of birth control and your own body.



it is extremely rare for a doctor to agree to hysterectomy in such a young person and with no real medical cause (disruptive menstruation is not generally seen as cause for hysterectomy). hysterectomy is major surgery and carries all the risks of major surgery such as blood clots, infection, and even death. it also carries other risks specific to removal of the uterus such as failure of the ovaries resulting in early menopause.

for getting special requests about your care, someone else suggested utilizing the hospital social worker, which may be a good contact for you to try. also, i highly suggest not blindly signing all the forms at admission they will present you with (or if you pre-register, they give you those forms then). the blanket forms give them permission to treat you without getting your consent for individual things. that means they can give you additional drugs or treatments without talking to you about it. you are within your rights to cross those sections out and write in that you require they give you counsel and get consent for each individual treatment.

also, you can let them know you do not want to be used for teaching purposes. some hospitals use women under anesthesia as teaching subjects and allow multiple medical students to practice pelvic exams on the women. this is still currently happening, and also happens to males as well with rectal exams. this is done without knowledge by those examined, and is usually covered by that blanket consent form signed at admission that gives a hospital permission to use you in their teaching practices. make sure your surgeon knows whether or not you consent to this type of teaching exercise, and note any refusal on your admission/consent forms.