Crowns, airbeds and Dr Phil

I am a bit of a klutz. I had ordered and airbed without an inbuild pump because I am prob going camping next year. And those nasty tents don't have any electricity. Don't even get me started on them having no sanitary facilities. I am NOT a camping girl, but it will be for a good cause, will tell you more about tht at another time. Back to the airbed. I was going to pump it and see if it was intact. Now I did happen to find a very old pump. Of course it did not fit. By the time I found that out I had pushed it through the hole in the bed and it was stuck. Groan, in getting it out I broke the seal of the airbed. It still works, kinda... took me nearly half an hour to get enough air into it. But the seal that slows the flow of air when you want to close it broke off so that is a real bummer. I have to practice in being very fast in closing it to keep some air in it. Sigh.

Last night I was watching the Dr. Phil show and the man really managed to piss me off severely. Now I am not a big fan anyway. Sometimes he has interresting topics but often he is way too pushy for my taste. Last night he was talking to a transgendered father of two teenage daughter. The man was a police agent and had taken a difficult decision to go on with the transition to woman. That is a really brave step in my book. The daughters did not want to accept this decisions and acted as victims. To my horror Dr. Phil was behind the girls all the way and all three of them went on an on at the poor man/woman about her being selfish in his choises and hurting his daughters. Come on!!!! I understand it is not easy if your father suddenly says he wants to be a woman. But it is not an easy choice, being born in the wrong body can't be easy. Leaving everything, job, family, behind can't be easy. Living openly with such a change is hard. She did not deserve to be treated like that. And it left me angry that in our day and age people are still treated that respectless by somebody who calls himself a psychologist.

Today was my horror appointment at the dentist to get two crowns. The appointment lasted 130 minutes!!! Most of it spend with my head close to the floor and my mouth open. It involved drilling most of the teeth away, luckily she did use painkillers, had to up it at least twice! It also involved a lot of pulling on and yanking of my jaw.I had planned to do retail therapy afterwards but I was so groggy that I could barely stumble to the busstop and make my way home. I was very glad I was not cycling or by car. In two weeks time I have to go back to have the crowns installed but that shouldn't be so bad. Now I am finally relaxing a bit and I promise myself an early night in bed with my books. My retail therapy will have to wait till another time, but I will do it!!!!

Comments

Anonymous said…
Oh, Mieke; I'm honestly not surprised at all by Dr. Phil's position. By and large that is the position on transgendering in the US. That's why it's so hard to find a good gender therapist and most people making the change end up having the surgery done at some fly by night clinic in the Bahamas or something.

Or, even worse; they try to just live with the body they've been stuck with and follow the established norm of society.

Of course in the long term this is more hurtful to everyone involved.
27 November 2008 at 19:25
gawain said…
That is so sad! It has been established now that it is a change in the brain. These people are born into the wrong body and we have a ways to do something about that now. It is not something you will do lightly, surgery, hormone treatments. People who make that choice should be treated with respect.
1 December 2008 at 18:43
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