Nurse: “Could you be pregnant?”
Patient: “No.”
“You've had a tubal ligation?”
“No.”
“Oh, so you could be pregnant?”
“No, my husband has a vasectomy.”
“Those aren't always 100%”
“Well, I haven't had sex since November, when I got sick.”
“When was your last period?”
“A couple weeks ago.”
“Okay, we're gonna go ahead and give you a pregnancy test, just to be sure.”
What kind of christofascist hellscape are we living in?
@Cat_LeFey don't you know... Everyone is expecting the antichrist to be born. Given our current global environment I'd probably be on the look out for that too.
@Cat_LeFey There is a reason for this. Unlikely as it seems, it's good medical practise to rule out pregnancy 100%. It turns out, counter-intuitively, that it's very easy indeed to be pregnant and not know it.
And it's a common condition with a long list of side-effects.
We know this first-hand. My wife has a long list of chronic illnesses. The drugs masked her pregnancy. We're not ignorant but had no idea. We only found out when a spinal x-ray found a second spine...
I seriously doubt the christofascists can quote a single passage of their user manual (Bible) with book, chapter, and verse accurately. They are posers, only, re their religion and it seems their medical aptitude.
@siin Lol, wtf, the lengths these people will go through to not believe women, smh.
I told them my medical history and they didn't assume I was lying, go figure.
@Cat_LeFey It really is absolutely insane. On the one hand, I understand that the risk of liability is SO high if someone were to medicate or perform surgery on a person who turned out to be pregnant, but on the other hand if another surgeon has literally documented a tubal ligation or hysterectomy.... that should be good enough ffs. I wish it were shocking to me that your experience were totally contrary but Western medicine has always been supremely hostile to women
@Cat_LeFey It's truly horrifying how many medical treatments are put off for people who simply have the biological equipment necessary for pregnancy. If I were that patient, I'd start asking if the nurse believes I've evolved to be capable of parthenogenesis. Just for ironic funsies, of course, since it wouldn't actually change anything. And the mention of evolution may, of course, trigger a whole new problem.
@aehdeschaine Pretty sure she said something like, "I'm not paying for that," and I'm so glad she was able to advocate for herself, it's tough when they keep tryna push stuff on you. Money talks I guess, lol
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