Empowering Voices Against Medical Disrespect

In my mid 40’s and I am now fully understanding the constraints of health when you are in a doing mindset, masculine energy, also right side of body. When it feels like you are pushing against the force, when it should be in flow.

I knew this Friday afternoon, within minutes of a ‘specialist’ walking into the room. The energy of the room changed, instantly. It felt like a cog in the wheel, no movement forward.

There are two sides to this, as a mother, who’ daughter was just diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer. Yes this is an ‘easier’ cancer to deal with, thank god, I am grateful for that. It IS still Cancer in a very young adult.

Advocating for my daughter, respectfully of course and also pushing back against this patriarchal medical system. A specialist chose to take an appointment that he shouldn’t have.

As a mother I was continually dumbfounded at the way our daughters appointment was going. With what we have dealt with the past few years, being a Doctor does NOT give you the right to treat patients with disrespect and delay treatment. At the end of the appointment when I questioned when we could approximately expect her surgery to be, he looked at us and said ‘I don’t do Thyroid surgery’… Surely to god this person doesn’t have kids and clearly doesn’t understand the lengths you will go to for your child, like driving them wherever to see an actual specialist who does this service. His reasoning, for ‘intercepting’ essentially, so he could then refer to his ‘colleague’… no this is not happening.

Greed… there is so much in the medical system, everyone has to get their dollar and dime for each second, but do they actually care, very little of them do. To most, you are merely just a number. So this specialist got paid to really do nothing but delay us.

We could have had an appt a week ago with an actual specialist who DOES do Thyroid Surgery and now are back to square one.When I woke up this morning, Monday, I had zero anxiety about work. Nothing. What hit me… all of this! Its Monday back to trying to get answers, a not so fun game that for whatever reason the universe seems to want to drag each of my family members through…

Ive learned the lesson, we follow through our own records, I analyze the F out of them, we are all now under the person I was seeing, and she is fully trusted by our family, we are truly grateful for her.

How can one person change this, which is silly to say because its so many people, I have other extended family members who have been perked around. So how do we change it?! By everyone not being scared to speak up.

People will publicly talk shit about small local businesses instead of talking one on one and yet pussy foot around Doctors, just because of their credentials or where you live. YOU know your body best, your gut and intuition will never lead you astray, if you listen and use common sense ;)

Never ever let a doctor minimize what you are feeling or delaying your comfort! We just finished our ensuite a couple months ago. Thank god, the amount of epsom salt baths Ive already taken, have been life saving and giving. Living a ‘balanced’ life of grief, sorrow, sorrow, anger and sadness is so friggin hard, all while trying to live my best life and be happy, grateful and all the things. It just feels so hard somedays and today is another one…