Myself being a prime example. I could have lost my life. That's how fucking bad this problem is and it needs to stop.
Flynnal,
I’m going to say this because for awhile I have been reading your story and posts and I think it’s time to speak up and say I feel you’re grossly misrepresenting your situation.
First, no decision that the doctor at the ER made endangered your life.
You made that decision that if you lost the hearing in one of your ears
you would commit suicide. Again, let’s be 100% clear, your life was never in danger,
except by your own hand. And you claimed the ER doc did everything wrong and should have known better. I suspect your medical knowledge was not obtained at medical school. I’m sure that ER doc didn’t make her decision lightly and hey, what do you know? Your hearing improved based upon her decision-making and prescribed treatment regimen!
Furthermore, as a urology nurse having tended to hundreds, and possibly over 1,000 infant circumcisions at this point in my life, the main reason infants cry inconsolably is due to being put on the circumcision board and having their limbs immobilized with Velcro. They hate lying flat as they’re used to being swaddled in blankets and being curled in their mother’s (or father’s) arms. Doctors use either a local nerve block, lidocaine gel, or a combination of both before any circumcision is undertaken. Thus, your statements about trauma about “having witnessed extreme abuse against an infant” are absolute bullshit in my book. You undoubtedly saw an infant screaming during the course of a routine infant circumcision, or perhaps a bris, which happens to millions of baby boys in the US every year. And guess what? They’re all screaming, until they get back into the arms of a loved one.
Flynnal, you’re choosing to be a victim and spend inordinate amounts of time and energy on this ER doctor’s supposed malpractice issue and your trauma from “witnessing extreme abuse” from an infant undergoing circumcision.
I replied to your “My Story” post in TDS because I thought your complaint might have real merit. But it quickly became infinitely clear, after seeing your comments here and more recently on different threads over the past few weeks, that you don’t seem to wish to move on and are instead choosing this victim mentality. If you wish to continue with this, don’t expect people like your parents to understand and be accepting of your views. Utilize your energy to move on, I implore you. You will be infinitely happier in the end. All this bad energy can’t be good for you!