Not that I’m bitter or anything …<\/p>\n
But when it comes to my future plumbing surgery,<\/p>\n
There’s no way in hell I’m going to go off my hormones prior to 24 hours before surgery …<\/p>\n
Unless,<\/p>\n
It becomes normal operating procedure,<\/p>\n
That a week or two or four before any natal female goes in for surgery,<\/p>\n
The doctors say to her …<\/p>\n
“I’m sorry, we’re going to have to shut down your ovaries until after surgery such that you have virtually no estrogen in your body …<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“Oh yeah, and while we are at it, we’re going to start shooting you up with testosterone …<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“You know, so we can give you the best of both worlds.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“Just as you are experiencing the stress of a surgery …<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“We’re going to eliminate the one hormone that brings calm and peace to your system …<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“And add another hormone that has proven to increase the anxiety and stress one experiences with life in general, let along what it does to a person with an upcoming stressful event.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“Why are we going to do it? Well … really, I don’t know, it’s just the way it’s always been done. So you don’t have a choice.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
Now I’ll grant, Dr. Z is nicely reasonable as far as his philosophy goes of how long prior to surgery one should cease hormone therapy,<\/p>\n
And I’d never choose a doc solely because of that issue alone,<\/p>\n
But …<\/p>\n
I find no logic whatsoever with this whole need to cut out the ‘mones before surgery,<\/p>\n
And it sucks. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I seriously might have to add doctors to the list of professions in which I implement my Payback approach to representing people.<\/p>\n
You see … with a few professions,<\/p>\n
I treat them as I have been treated in the past,<\/p>\n
Plumbers, garage door opener repairmen, and cable company employees are my most famous examples.<\/p>\n
With potential clients that I know work for cable companies,<\/p>\n
If they call for an appointment …<\/p>\n
My standard line is …<\/p>\n
“Sure, I can meet with you on [whatever day works the worst for them] during the afternoon. You’ll have to have be in my lobby between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Someone will meet with you as soon as we can during that time. No, I’m sorry, we can’t be any more specific than that. But if you can have someone in my lobby within 15 minutes of receiving a phone call, I can have someone in my office give you a call first, but if you’re not there when I walk into the lobby, you’ll miss your appointment and have to reschedule for another time.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
Yeah, I’ve actually used that line.<\/p>\n
No, I didn’t totally mean it, I just make them wait at least 15 minutes regardless of when they show up.<\/p>\n
Yes, I have still oddly enough represented cable company employees from time to time.<\/p>\n
And it totally cracks me up !! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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