by Sean - 10 October 2009
In a recent article in the Dakota Voice, a Dr. Theo used Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) as an example to explain why he finds it unethical to provide in-vitro fertilisation for lesbian couples. I won’t comment on in-vitro fertilisation, that’s not the purpose of this blog. I will say, however, that Dr. Theo appears to me to be pretty narrow minded and to be a typical Western doctor, who doesn’t look at "health" in a holistic manner. Dr. Theo has a negative bias towards disabilities.
A Question Of Morals continues »
by Lane - 18 August 2009
It’s the funniest thing. Most people, I’ve found, just don’t get paralysis. That is to say that they don’t understand what it really means and how it affects the person who is experiencing this condition. The same could be said for pain or hunger or for an itch. For many people, there are few clues to what another person is truly experiencing.
People Just Don’t Get Paralysis continues »
by Sophie - 19 July 2009
I had an appointment today with my GP’s nurse to enroll on a program to subsidise my doctors visits even more. To be elegible I had to have two or more problems and visit a doctor at least every three months… I qualified, yay :)
Visiting the Nurse continues »
by Sean - 19 February 2009
I am dying a slow and painful death. I have BIID. It does not have to be a life sentence with ongoing anguish and depression. But it is. Because there is no help to be had. Personne n’aide. Those who could help, won’t. Those who would help, can’t. How fucked is that?
BIID, Une Mort Lente Et Tortueuse continues »
by Sean - 8 February 2009
I’m running out of voice. I’ve been saying the same thing for so long, I fear people think I’m a broken record. I fear I’ve dulled the impact of my own anguish by trying to raise a reaction from people. Not you, the reader who is transabled, because you know. But the others. The doctors, the surgeons, the psychiatrists, all the medical people who have vowed to help people. I don’t feel heard. What will it take for people to notice me?
What Do I Need To Do To Be Heard? continues »