today i stubbed my tow very hard against my dressor but didn't feel anything #numb🤘
[Image description: Two smartphone screenshots of a Facebook post by a person named Sheila Toll posted 2 Sep. It is black text on a white background and the post is public. The post reads:
I am a Family Doctor and I want to keep a promise made to a patient.
Julie was a healthy, post-menopausal woman in my care who came in for a periodic health examination. One of my routine questions, in what is called the “Review of Systems”, was to ask if she had experienced any vaginal bleeding.
She said “No” but then laughed and added, “Other than when my period came back for a few months last year”.
All health care professional are taught early on that ‘vaginal bleeding in a post-menopausal woman is Cancer of the Uterus until proven otherwise’. This comment by Julie was, therefore, a red flag (no pun intended) prompting further questions, an examination and an ultrasound of her pelvis.
Julie was surprised to see me so concerned, especially since the symptoms had not recurred over many months.
Sure enough, a pelvic ultrasound and tissue sampling confirmed Cancer of the Uterus.
Julie underwent a hysterectomy and radiation therapy. She is now healthy, cancer-free and is expected to stay that way.
After all this was done, Julie sat ME down for a talk. She told me she’d had no idea a ‘short return’ of her period after menopause was a danger signal. Furthermore, she addressed the topic with friends over coffee and discovered that, out of 20 women, NONE of them knew this symptom was abnormal! She admonished me to “Tell women this! Don’t assume we know it!”
From that day on, I have kept Julie’s advice in mind when talking with post-menopausal patients. But recently my wife suggested that I should take this to a wider audience.
So, Julie, this is for you:
If you are a post-menopausal woman and your period ‘comes back’ or you have even one episode of vaginal bleeding, TELL A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL and insist on having it investigated!
Wishing you all good health and long lives. End image description.]
fictional characters only start expressing aromantic sentiments (eg. "i don't get crushes" "i'm not looking for anyone" "i don't wanna fall in love") when they're about to be proven wrong. it's fucking rude. you can't only use our language when you're about to devalue our experiences and imply we need to be fixed. you owe us actual aro characters. where are they
THE WRITER AND ACTOR’S STRIKES HAVE SUCCESSFULLY PAUSED THE PRODUCTION OF 4 MARVEL MOVIES!!!! thank you striking creatives.
nightly spiral
this is my favorite fuckin comic ever I have never seen something capture the experience so well
yeah you think trans bodies are great but are you normal about intersex bodies?
this is your friendly reminder that sexualizing trans and intersex people isn’t the correct response to someone trying to address the societal disgust of intersex bodies and how trans people are often disrespectful of that. i dont care if you think either of us are hot. that’s irrelevant to a conversation about discrimination.
pssst. the movie’s available on dvd for $14 and the entire collection’s for $47. buy physical media, support the wga/sag-aftra strikes & fuck david zaslav & company
Reddit's doing another r/place event and Touhou fans are creating an ANIMATION of Bad Apple by creating the frames of it one by one with black and white pixels






