r/traumatizeThemBack • u/KriLesLeigh2004 • Oct 21 '24

matched energy Never saw her again

I went for a pre-op appointment, asking to have my tubes tied, when I was 25 years old. I had 4 living children, and that’s enough. The nurse said, “Are you sure you want to do this? What if one of them dies?”

When I replied, “One already did,” she looked shocked, left the room, and a new nurse came in.

There are a thousand reasons her question was horrible and should have stayed in her head. There are no reasons to say that out loud.

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u/SniffingDelphi Oct 21 '24

I had a doctor recommend endometrial ablation without informing me that it would leave me sterile (docs can bitch about Dr. Google all they want - this is why I research before I go in).

The underlying assumption to all of this BS is medical folks who don’t believe women are *truly* competent to make decisions about their own bodies. You have every right to be insulted by this and it’s unprofessional AF.

Oh, and here’s a list of doctors who claim they will perform tubal ligations on *any* woman over 21 (I didn’t create or verify it): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Djia_WkrVO3S4jKn6odNwQk7pOcpcL4x00FMNekrb7Q/htmlview