r/comics • u/TheNectarineDiaries • Jun 19 '26

OC Why didn't you say so?

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Best medical advice I ever got was to bring a man to your appointments

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u/KinkyBark Jun 20 '26

Well yeah, if they can’t talk you know they aren’t lying to you. Clearly we should all just go to the doctor then yelp in pain and try to bite them if they touch somewhere that hurts.

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u/braking_zone Jun 20 '26

honestly if I’m grumpy enough I just might

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u/ratafia4444 Jun 20 '26

And then they'll send you to psych ward without checking for any actual problem. 🤷

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u/Prestigious_Row_8022 Jun 22 '26

Aww don’t say that. They’ll get someone to illegally sign for a psych eval that was never done.

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u/_mercybeat_ Jun 22 '26

Username check out.

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u/ExIsStalkingMe Jun 20 '26

I should've growled and bit at doctors more during the process. Might've sped things up

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u/queenmorrow Jun 21 '26

I worked in veterinary medicine for about 10 years. Seeing the contrast from animal vs people medicine is so frustrating. Every story or experience leads me to believe that we care for our animals more than our people. Not to mention how quick things get done for animals compared to people 💀

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u/AyJay9 Jun 28 '26

Misogyny gets in the way here too. My vet thought I was hysterical and overreacting to anything wrong with my cat.

Anyway, I ended up cycling between emergency vets and this vet who would be like 'follow up in 6 months!' when the ER vet visits were growing closer together and different ER vets warned me that this was the beginning of the final decline. I trusted our main vet and, honestly, what he was saying was what I wanted to hear, so my cat's kidneys failing only a few weeks after his follow up caught me by surprise. It shouldn't have. I let this idiot gaslight me about my cat's health.

So now I am hyper-vigilant to the possibility that one of my healthy young kitties is secretly dying and I have to take it seriously because no one else will. I rushed to the emergency vet when one coughed... only for him to bring up a hair ball in the car on the way there. Yeaaaah. Cornered between well-earned paranoia and the stereotype that got me treated this way in the first place. Not loving it.