So I recently got surgery two weeks ago and on the day of the surgery, they had me waiting in a cold room in just a gown because they had to do a pregnancy test. I had just gotten off my period literally two days ago and unless I was miraculously the next Virgin Mary, Iām 100% not pregnant. The nurse barely looks up from her charts to acknowledges this before insisting that I had to take another test. If I didnāt take another one, they would immediately cancel my surgery. It was hospital policy.
Iāve had this condition all my life but its gotten completely unbearable the past few years and Iāve been actively going to the doctors the last two years trying different methods to allievate my pain and this surgery was my last chance at any type of pain free life. It took 6 months to schedule and if I had to wait another second, I was going kill somebody. Safe to say I was a little pissed. I sat in that freezing room, irritated with an IV needle sticking in my hand, waiting on the nurse to find records of my pee test that I did less than a two week ago at their request. She couldnāt find the test results. She handed me an empty container with a cheery smile and an obnoxious prep talk that I did not ask for and told me to fill it.
One of the preparatory requirements they gave me was that the night before the surgery I couldnāt consume any foods or liquid (water especially). So I couldnāt pee. I asked for some water and she reluctantly gave me a cup with two sip fulls.
My surgery was scheduled for 9 A.M, they told me to come in at 7:30 A.M. It was already 11:41 A.M. when I had to retake the test and I didnāt go in until almost 1 P.M. The fact that I had to go through that extra hoop and have the threat of my surgery being cancelled hung over me like a noose just because of a pregnancy test is beyond aggravating. People love perpetually valuing the potential of a possible fetus over the lives of already living women. We always seem to come second no matter what.
Thatās sounds extremely stressful. Iām sorry you had to go through that on top of everything else. We arenāt effing incubators!
This is so common amongst girls and women dealing with medical care
The hospital that removed my ovary and tied my tubes makes me take a pregnancy test every time I have surgery, even though it would be a miracle if I was.
When I injured my back (spinal injury you know one where you are careful with a patient) and it was bad no feeling below the change extreme pain etc.
I had subluxed/dislocated my spine.
Except unlike with a man whoād be taken straight to x day or treated with a pinch of dignity āā- I was told while lying in a A&E bed that I had to take a pregnancy test.
I was already crying in pain, I was begging them to let me sign a form, just one form, I told them I was a virgin etc. I wanted a form I promise ā- nope, they had 4 men try and turn a SPINAL INJURY patient onto her side while she sobbed and screamed in pain (it me) and tried to slide a bed pan under me. Finally a female nurse came in and told them to get the form
They had told me it didnāt exist.
Men get dignity, women get torture because our bodies are not our own.
I was in hospital a week and they kept checking my pregnancy status.
Because my spine being out and causing no feeling below my waist/immense pain was less important than a possible fetus.
Womenās bodies arenāt our own. We need to fight to stop that.
The more I read all these comments and reblogs, the angrier I get.
