Comments on: Blogging Disability http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/05/blogging-disability Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:25:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Miss Waxie http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/05/blogging-disability/comment-page-1#comment-2409 Miss Waxie Fri, 29 May 2009 17:04:10 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=6421#comment-2409 Thanks for listening me among your links. Until recently, I never really realized how much red-tape I wade through simply based on my sex organs. I thought you might be interested in my latest comic: women's issues, medicine, and surgery collide when failing to produce enough urine for a pregnancy test nearly prevents me from getting a sedative for my eye surgery - http://acomiclifeindeed.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/that-time-i-failed-my-pregnancy-test/ - Miss Waxie Thanks for listening me among your links. Until recently, I never really realized how much red-tape I wade through simply based on my sex organs.

I thought you might be interested in my latest comic: women’s issues, medicine, and surgery collide when failing to produce enough urine for a pregnancy test nearly prevents me from getting a sedative for my eye surgery – http://acomiclifeindeed.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/that-time-i-failed-my-pregnancy-test/

- Miss Waxie

]]> By: Mrs Spock http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/05/blogging-disability/comment-page-1#comment-2296 Mrs Spock Sat, 09 May 2009 01:07:20 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=6421#comment-2296 Even though this doesn't apply to Miss Waxie's case, I will say that I know quite a few infertility bloggers who wished their physician had mentioned to them the effects treatment would have on their future fertility, including several folks who had childhood cancer. I know, even with all my chronic pain syndromes, at one point I never thought I'd want children- and that changed significantly the older I became. And now, of course, the worse my pain gets, the less open I become to going off my pain meds to increase my family size. Parenthood is something that many people have a desire to experience, and whether that means spending more time learning about adoption- because not all of us can realistically go without our needed treatments- and understanding what negative effects treatments could have on our fertility, and what we could do about them, merits knowing. Even though this doesn’t apply to Miss Waxie’s case, I will say that I know quite a few infertility bloggers who wished their physician had mentioned to them the effects treatment would have on their future fertility, including several folks who had childhood cancer. I know, even with all my chronic pain syndromes, at one point I never thought I’d want children- and that changed significantly the older I became. And now, of course, the worse my pain gets, the less open I become to going off my pain meds to increase my family size. Parenthood is something that many people have a desire to experience, and whether that means spending more time learning about adoption- because not all of us can realistically go without our needed treatments- and understanding what negative effects treatments could have on our fertility, and what we could do about them, merits knowing.

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