• HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      That was a great read, thanks for sharing 💜

      Proud owner of a tubal litigation here, no kids. I can’t consciously bring one into this world. Took me 15 years after I started asking for one at age 27 for insurance to give me one though. I was finally considered “old enough” to not change my mind about it. Yet another reason under the “this world” stack of reasons.

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        9 months ago

        That’s a crazy time frame.

        I said in September “I would like a vascectomy”

        And I got one in December. Insurance covered it. No questions.

        Vasectomies aren’t reversible either apparently. They took a chunk of tube out of each ball and all I had to say was “Yes I’m sure. No no one is compelling me”

        The sexism of the medical field is insane to me.

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            9 months ago

            I lucked out I think.

            I got an APRN first for my referral and she told me one of two doctors will need to sign off on this and one of them is chill about young people getting vasectomies the other would want to see me personally to talk me out of it, but would still do it.

            I got the chill guy. He made dick jokes mid ball snipping.

            (You’re awake during a vasectomy)