( My day )

I want to title this post as 'girly-talk' but I think that that's part of the cultural problem I'm talking about - talking about contraception should not be a 'girly-talk' subject. Also, there's the infections side of using/not-using condoms, but I don't have any experience of being in a situation where one partner knows that they have an infection ( Read more... )

( TW: suicide, meds )

...but something in me is really resistant to putting this under a cut, because hiding this stuff away is part of what makes it so stigmatised and contributes to ignorance and hurts people.

Brilliant and Dull vs Dull and StableThis is the binary that my old doctor assumed to be the case, and why she refused to even consider meds for me. However, ( Read more... )

I remember when my doctor did this to me.*sigh ( Read more... )

Apparently (by the fact that they ask 'have you ever...') GUM clinics still assume that sex with bisexual guys = OMG superrisky. I am disappointed with them.

OTOH, yearly checkups for this sort of thing are not as painful and awkward as people would have you believe.

I voted! I mostly did the thing of saying 'yes' to AV, and have no clue about the Hull Road candidates except that the Labour Candidate is a prat. I think. That might have been last year's. So I voted by party, which is probably not nearly as good as voting by candidate, but still makes the prat parties less likely to get in, so ( Read more... )

( trigger warnings apply )

Well, on Thursday I went up to Sister's to ask about the lumps on my knuckles, and she sent me into the Doctor's. Dr. Ford told me to go up to the Health Centre and have a blood test in case it was artritus or somthing ( Read more... )