i had two hours left to go WHAT THE FUCK all the data is apparently gonepic.twitter.com/auTx2k2FeR
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still reeling over how much that neurologist understood? her: we often see PNES in highly intelligent people who have something else weird going on with their brains like schizophrenia or one of the dissociative disorders me: heh her: do you have something you want to tell me
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me: not if you're not going to let me get surgery? her: you get your surgery me: ok.. i was diagnosed as schizoaffective at 12 her: how did you do in school me: i got a B once—in biology—but then i went to uni at 15 and studied theoretical physics and feminist critical theory
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her: yep, and it says you're a cryptographer now.. let me guess, you're ambidextrous? me: uh yeah.. how did you kn— her: anything weird with that? me: my left hand writes backwards, like mirror image her: nice! like da vinci. you have trouble recognising faces? me: yeah? how do—
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then she also told me about a colleague neurologist who also has PNES and depersonalisation disorder, is faceblind and ambidextrous, and ALSO WRITES MIRROR IMAGE WITH ONE HAND (wtf i found my people) and that they use it to make symmetric anatomical drawings while lecturing
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meanwhile she's explaining a bunch of useful information my stupid glitch brain over here is memeing away like I CAME OUT TO HAVE A GOOD TIME AND I'M HONESTLY FEELING SO ATTACKED RIGHT NOW and BORN TO FRY WORLD IS A FUCK 410,757,864,530 BRAIN ZAPPY BOIS so that was helpful
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anyway they're probably going to give me bottom surgery this thursday so good riddance to a bunch of annoying body parts, may you rot in a biohazard bin somewhere, unless they let me taxidermy you, which would be awesome
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can you imagine going to someone's house and they just have bits of their genitals floating in a jar on the bookcase? i, for one, would absolutely swoon
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yesterday the anaesthesiologist said i needed an additional letter from either my GP or the cardiologist.. we got the letter from the GP by the afternoon, then he tried to reject the letter because it had my correct name and pronouns and we had to waive a court order in his face
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then after that he said he needed BOTH letters. this was at 5pm, the night before i was scheduled to have surgery.
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somehow an on call cardiologist was able to see me this morning, and took a third EKG. he started laughing and said the anaesthesiologist has said “some strange things that didn’t make any sense”
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so previously, when the anaesthesiologist said i was a “pretty young woman with unexplained seizures” and that i couldn’t have surgery because of it, he took an EKG immediately AFTERWARDS, while i was shaking from rage and on the verge of tears
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he apparently then went around with the bad result telling the other doctors that he suspected atrial fibrillation, hypertrophic, and some other mishmash of cardiac conditions, presumedly as yet another way to try to block me from getting surgery?
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can’t even imagine how transphobic someone would have to be to be so hell bent on denying someone care, but i guess the answer is, this fucking guy
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anyway my heart is fine, the cardiologist was nice and said “i’m not a neurologist but you really are a textbook case of someone with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures”
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still laughing about the time after
@xychelsea’s surgery when she woke up and this nice nurse came in and said “chelsea told me what you all do!” (the room was full of hackers and cryptographers) us: oh? nurse: yeah! you all rob houses! us: what? noooooooo we break into computersShow this thread -
my surgery was a complete success! happy pride from your incredibly high on painkillers enbyfriend covered in tubes and wirespic.twitter.com/YymU11KccE
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