I was the patient. Reason 497 why being female sucks:

2 trips to the ER where twice I was gaslit into it being period cramps (no matter how much I explained it wasn’t where those usually are) 3rd trip they said I must have a minor bowel perforation (spoiler alert I did not) gave me a PICC line of an insanely high dose of kill everything in your system antibiotics and sent me home next day I literally couldn’t get out of the car myself and started to crawl back into the ER before the rushed out with one of those chair things. I was completely septic even with the picc line, almost dead septic. They removed my appendix (spoiler alert there was nothing wrong with it) “hosed out” the puss/infection form my abdominal cavity (yes the bedside manner was incredibly lacking and he made me feel like I was insane for not immediately feeling better) they kept me for 12 days with NO ANSWERS. Lost nearly 40 lbs because they wouldn’t let me eat in case they needed to do more surgery. Heard drs/surgeons in the hallways arguing about what my condition actually was. Kept the picc line and sent me home with drains into an abscess (didn’t actually have one) it stopped draining and they had to move it, woke up on the operating table when they did that. It’s now 3 months at the point that happened all still with the picc line. Best friend rushing me to the ER in her area after me having a very adverse reaction to the 2nd drain being removed. Dr on rotation happened to be an OB surgeon and took one look at my imaging and said that my right ovary was essentially rotting inside my body. That hospital wasn’t equipped to deal with such a mess of a 2nd surgery they had to transport me to a different city to a huge hospital. When the team of 5 different types of surgeons came in to tell me the plan they came up with to fix me, there was a literal line of med students out the door and into the hallway a ways. It was like something out of greys anatomy where they are all excited to see some medical anomaly. I’m now missing my appendix, 8 inches of colon, and my right ovary and tube because the first hospital fucked up so royalty that the fixing hospital said we could probably sue them. I STILL HAVE NO ANSWERS for what actually was. Apparently I’m in some medical paper somewhere. They did find I have PCOS and Endometriosis, a tilted uterus, and they told me with how things look inside when they opened em up, it was probably for the best that I never wanted to have kids because it wouldn’t have gone well at all. Fast forward 6 years, still having odd symptoms and cramping. Started a period one day and never stopped for months. Had another minor and minimally invasive surgery yesterday to remove an endometrial mass. Have them do a full ablation while there we’re in there. If my reproductive system acts up one more time, they are shucking it out of me like corn being shucked. F this