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MerryBlooms

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3. I would like to bring up something that I believe dovetails in this
Thu Feb 15, 2024, 07:20 PM
Feb 2024

conversation. Women being denied their medical choices, when it comes to female reproductive parts. When women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, or any other type of reproductive cancer, if they are of "reproductive" age, the doctors refuse to do full removal, even at the patient request. We won't do that, you might change your mind. My coworker had emergency surgery for ruptured ovarian cancer, total hysterectomy, day before yesterday. Less than a year, after they removed the one ovary, took part of her uterus, but wouldn't do what she wanted, which was totally removal of all, during that first surgery. Because, she's only 28, there's a chance, and blah blah blah. She almost died, all because women are never taken seriously in our reproductive health. We are patted on the head and told we don't know what is best for us, Me the Man doctor knows what's best for you, little girl. Fuck this!

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