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Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World | Elinor Cleghorn

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As a woman diagnosed with hEDS in the last 1.5 years, this book is so validating. It also explains so much of my own experiences with medical professionals. The EDS explains so much of my life history. This book is such an important starting point, this should be required reading for any medical professional to be licensed in the 2020s.
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GingerAntics How are women to be treated like human beings with the ability to make decisions for themselves about their lives and their medical treatment socially and culturally, if medical professionals don‘t even take us seriously as human beings? #elinorcleghorn #unwellwomen #chronicillness #sexism #everydaysexism #eds #heds #pain #chronicpain #iamanunwellwoman 4mo

GingerAntics This was quite a lovely companion today as I sat in dealing with low level joint pain and ridiculously dry eyes (I swear, every day I find a new connection between something truly annoying in my life and EDS). 4mo

kspenmoll I am happy you have a diagnosis; sad you are living with its symptoms. I looked it up but sounds like there are many kinds. Do you have a source you think is best? I know we are just litsy friends but i care for you. 🩵 I got Unwell Women from the library. (edited) 4mo

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GingerAntics @kspenmoll honestly, I‘m still wrapping my head around it. Every time I turn around another random thing is tied to it. lol I‘ve taken to just googling the symptom and EDS just to see what pops up. lol There is the Ehlor‘s Danlos Society that‘s pretty good. I haven‘t found any books yet. There are 13 kinds or 16 kinds. It‘s a lot of kinds. I have the hypermobile kind. It‘s the only one without a genetic test. 4mo

GingerAntics @kspenmoll it‘s finally an answer to why I‘ve felt like I was “getting old” since my late teens. It took a physical therapist asking the right questions for me to end up with a diagnosis. Man I love that guy! The book is great! It‘s also kind of sad how women have been completely abandoned and even outright harmed by the medical profession when men took over and started outlawing midwives/women from attending births and caring for each other. 4mo

GingerAntics @kspenmoll like most things, if guys would just keep out of it, or come in asking questions instead of making pronouncements, we would be SO much further along. 4mo

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Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World | Elinor Cleghorn

I found my way to this book via a post by the #shesaid group. I have to say, what a wonderful choice! I am so in love with this book already, and it is exactly what I needed right now. It even ties into How to Think Like a Woman with a wonderful discussion of Mary Wollstonecraft‘s horrific death.
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GingerAntics #HowToThinkLikeAWoman #ReganPenaluna #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety
@TheBookHippie @ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll @bnp turns out Mary Wollstonecraft died because the doctor attending her birth didn‘t wash his hands before shoving his hand inside of her to remove her amniotic sack. 🙄 He probably couldn‘t be bothered to wait for her to expel it naturally. 4mo

GingerAntics He probably wanted to hurry back to the autopsy he‘d abandoned to attend the birth. 🙄 I just don‘t see how that wasn‘t even gross. I can‘t imagine touching blood and NOT washing my hands. I mean, gross. @TheBookHippie (edited) 4mo

AlaSkaat Just recently found out I am pregnant. This creeps me out !! Unbelievable. 4mo

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AlaSkaat Far behind reading the book, but I‘m here just in the background lurking 😂 4mo

GingerAntics @AlaSkaat right? Like, gross bro! Don‘t touch me, let alone my new born, without washing your hands and putting on gloves. Just, no! Luckily, you are alive today and gloves + sterilising surfaces and hands will be a thing! So, some good news. 4mo

GingerAntics @AlaSkaat well, you have a great reason! 🧡🧡🧡 4mo

AlaSkaat @GingerAntics Yeah, but just the thought of it! Horrifying. The fact it wouldn‘t occur to someone to wash their hands before going INSIDE someone is just crazy. Now or then!! 4mo

AlaSkaat @GingerAntics For sure! And soon use it as the excuse to just sit and read books instead! 😂🙏 4mo

GingerAntics @AlaSkaat right? I don‘t like having things on my hands, even lotion. So I just can‘t imagine having blood and god knows what on your hands and just touching other people and just everything. EW!!!! 4mo

GingerAntics @AlaSkaat YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! 4mo

AlaSkaat @GingerAntics oh yeah, for sure. It seems common knowledge to have good hygiene, it‘s really hard to understand how people back in the day just knew absolutely nothing about it and it amounted to so many deaths before they figured it out 4mo

AlaSkaat @GingerAntics What‘s the next book that‘s on your guys list? Have you guys chose anything? 4mo

GingerAntics @AlaSkaat right? They literally locked up the first doctor that even showed PROOF that washing hands saved mothers and babies. They were hell bent that washing was evil… even with actual proof. 4mo

GingerAntics @AlaSkaat not sure. Maybe Determined. Our group could have a wonderful discussion of free will and if it‘s real or imagined. 4mo

AlaSkaat @GingerAntics Lol. People believed in a man in the sky with no proof, but then a woman cures her mother with a green plant from her garden and she‘s a witch!! 😂 I feel this mentality didn‘t really get lost, it just moved onto different things nowadays 😅 4mo

AlaSkaat Oh, free will sounds interesting! It always baffled me the idea it could be either way and which one is better!! 4mo

GingerAntics @AlaSkaat that‘s so true. Now women tend to be written off as “new age crazies” when they find things to help themselves or the women in their lives that aren‘t modern medicine. 4mo

GingerAntics @AlaSkaat I feel like free will is one of those things that we often take for granted, it‘s so much a part of our lives, politics, everything. To even entertain the idea that it‘s all made up is mind bending. I feel like there is a combination of real and not real to it. 4mo

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics still happens today. I‘ve lost two teen moms this way. 4mo

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie from doctor‘s not cleaning their hands?! 4mo

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics Yup. The only way it would happen. Especially the one case. Strep A in bloodstream from cut or tear in delivery… I watched the doctor and she had no glove on, I questioned her… and she was irate. So sad. (edited) 4mo

kspenmoll I just saw this- seems like a must read for me! No glove?!!! OMG !!! This decade! @TheBookHippie (edited) 4mo

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie she was irate?! If I was that mother I would tell her to put a glove on or I would sue her if she touched me again. Gross 4mo

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics the mother was 14. 4mo

TheBookHippie @kspenmoll young pregnant girls have zero value. Especially if they are not white. 4mo

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie that is truly disgusting… never mind it‘s basically malpractice at this point. 4mo

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics welcome to my screaming into the VOID. I did 28 years volunteer doula for teens. Now I just give advice and direction to the current doulas when asked. 4mo

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie oh my god, I cannot imagine being the doula in that situation and being like “don‘t get an attitude with me. I will help this kid file a malpractice suit on you.” Abortion bans are all about the kids, but once they‘re born this country does not give a shit about them. 4mo

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics abortion bans are about control. I was well known for my mouth, most of the time I could protect them but the treatment they received was just wrong on so many levels. 4mo

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