#i went to my podiatrist and said 'i'm in pain' and he said 'ok let's see why' and then he DID and he treated me

[cephalopodvictorious]

part of the reason I'm as physically disabled as I am is that I experienced decades of intense and pervasive medical neglect

and I couldn't figure out why doctors hated me so bad until I met a good doctor and I suddenly realized that my mom had one (1) bad doctor, who recommended the other ones

and my mom didn't know that the shitty doctors were shitty because her mom only went to shitty doctors who recommended my mom's shitty doctors

so I've broken the cycle by hardcore vetting my medical team and relying on word of mouth from reliable doctors who actually take me seriously

anyway my mother fucked up her ankle and now she's coming to me for doctor recs and it feels really fucking good to be able to help her start to break the generational habit of accepting the bare fucking minimum