Fun things to hear when you are experiencing minor panic before being put under for an invasive procedure:Tech: (trying to sooth my worries) Are you Christian
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*hugs you* I feel your pain. And appreciate your distress at vomiting. Hell, I still can't smell a plain buttered bagel without wanting to vomit over my feet.
It was a horrible waste of a weekend, but it is over now and the bathroom really needed a scrub anyway. Gave me an excuse to do the baseboards. *hugs back*
oh man, the last thing you want to hear before a stressful medical procedure is someone hassling you about your religious beliefs. The tech was way out of line, and I agree that it wouldn't be inappropriate to file a complaint with the hospital. My guess is she doesn't hassle the doctor because he is male and above her in the hospital hierarchy, not because Islam is somehow more approved than Buddhism -- and you're completely right that Egypt is multisectarian, and that Coptic Christians are a sizable minority.
I'm an atheist/vaguely buddhist myself! Non-theists represent /fist-bump?
Glad to hear that you're doing well enough to skip the procedure for a while!
I remember when I went for the pre-testing for my tubal ligation. The tech, a man asked what procedure I was having, when I told him he just shut down, made this sneer face and wouldn't speak directly to me. A nurse friend said he was probably of a faith that didn't believe in tubal ligation.
Better, when I signed in to have my ruptured appendix out I told them I was an atheist I had to spell it. They wrote something that ended up leading to several religious persons coming by to talk to me. Apparently my chart said; "would benefit from religious support".
A friend told them they couldn't have given me enough drugs to make me say I wanted religious guidance.
It was weird having them try to save my soul.
I'm a born again atheist so I'm really really intense about it sometimes, very sensitive to being subjected to a Desert Death Religion centric culture.
So best to smile spike your green tea and ignore me on the topic.
I have a feeling we would be fine chatting about religion together. It is just WRONG that your writing down a perfectly valid belief system led to you being systematically hassled when you were in the fucking HOSPITAL and not feeling well anyway. What the ever lovin' fuck is wrong with these people?????? And that tech... he should have been fired. How can you trust people who act like that not to harm you during surgery? I would have been nervous as hell.
Have you seen Religulous by Bill Mahr (I probably spelled a lot of that wrong). If not, I think you would enjoy it. It was all in favor of born-again and very outspoken atheism. I thought it made a very smart point.
Heh. If I ever have to have any major medical procedures, I think I'm flying you out here and paying you to be my guardian angel. I tend to the timid. And when I get mad I often weep. You sound like a tower of strength in situations in which people's rights are being stomped.
Um... Hell, here in Redneckia they have turned away gay people, people who are transgendered or in the process of changing gender and have let them DIE and nothing was done about it.
What????!!!??? Whatwutwutwut??? How was that rationalized? that is terrible. Though apparently the man who invented the blood transfusion died of blood loss because the hospital would not treat non-caucasian people, so maybe that kind of heartless, bigoted, stupid cruelty isn't that unprecedented. (If that story is true; I think it is.)
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I hope everything goes well.
The bathroom can wait. *hugs*
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I'm an atheist/vaguely buddhist myself! Non-theists represent /fist-bump?
Glad to hear that you're doing well enough to skip the procedure for a while!
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Better, when I signed in to have my ruptured appendix out I told them I was an atheist I had to spell it. They wrote something that ended up leading to several religious persons coming by to talk to me. Apparently my chart said; "would benefit from religious support".
A friend told them they couldn't have given me enough drugs to make me say I wanted religious guidance.
It was weird having them try to save my soul.
I'm a born again atheist so I'm really really intense about it sometimes, very sensitive to being subjected to a Desert Death Religion centric culture.
So best to smile spike your green tea and ignore me on the topic.
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Have you seen Religulous by Bill Mahr (I probably spelled a lot of that wrong). If not, I think you would enjoy it. It was all in favor of born-again and very outspoken atheism. I thought it made a very smart point.
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Um... Hell, here in Redneckia they have turned away gay people, people who are
transgendered or in the process of changing gender and have let them DIE
and nothing was done about it.
What????!!!??? Whatwutwutwut??? How was that rationalized? that is terrible. Though apparently the man who invented the blood transfusion died of blood loss because the hospital would not treat non-caucasian people, so maybe that kind of heartless, bigoted, stupid cruelty isn't that unprecedented. (If that story is true; I think it is.)
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