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Before she became a paraplegic, Los Angeles resident DeVonna Cervantes liked to dye her pubic hair ‘fun colours’ - turquoise, purple, jet black. After DeVonna became disabled, a beautician friend of hers came to the rehabilitation unit and, as a Christmas present, dyed DeVonna’s pubic hair a hot pink.
But there’s no such thing as ‘private parts’ in a rehab hospital. Soon the staff, who’d seen her dye job when they were catheterizing her, sent the staff psychiatrist around to see her. Cervantes says that he told her: ‘I know it is very hard to accept that you have lost your sexuality but you don’t need to draw attention to it this way.’ [read more]
But there’s no such thing as ‘private parts’ in a rehab hospital. Soon the staff, who’d seen her dye job when they were catheterizing her, sent the staff psychiatrist around to see her. Cervantes says that he told her: ‘I know it is very hard to accept that you have lost your sexuality but you don’t need to draw attention to it this way.’ [read more]