The last couple of days in a few short sentences.
If you want to make loud phone calls in a doctor's waiting room, no problem. But a short ‘what happened so far’ at the beginning would help us all, waiting is so tedious.
There's only two genders: fascists and anti-facists.
Why is it said that young men are turning ultra right-wing because of feminism and not that young women are turning to feminism because of right-wing men? Are we again blaming women for the mistakes of men?
We are reaching peak magnolia season.
I got yet another diagnosis, a sort of tag along diagnosis, something that gets explained to me as an almost inevitable consequence of what has been going on in my body for seemingly ever, like 10 or so years (?). The doctor was polite and carefully explained that this is most likely another novel aspect of the autoimmune disease and we smiled at each other when I replied, well it seems we can blame this shit for everything that goes bad in my body. I even chuckled. Back home I kicked at the sofa and had a bit of a meltdown. Later, we watched the first episode or two of the apocalyptic Danish series Families like Ours, and what can I say, I feel fine in comparison. (I also have gastritis, so no coffee, no black tea.)
A child’s body is very easy to live in. An adult body isn’t. The change is hard. And it’s such a tremendous change that it’s no wonder a lot of adolescents don’t know who they are. They look in the mirror—that is me? Who’s me? And then it happens again, when you’re sixty or seventy.
Ursula K. Le Guin
It does indeed happen again when you're sixty. Arthritis in my knee, my hip, my toes, my fingers and my sternoclavicular joint (didn't even know that could happen).
ReplyDeleteAgain though, my stuff pales in comparison to an auto immune disease that wrecks havoc on your body. I'd kick the couch, or scream and cry, or destroy something. As Jack always says, it's not fair. It isn't. None of it is.
I'm going to look for that series. Thank you.
Ugh. Sorry about your gastritis. As a fellow sufferer I know it's no fun.
ReplyDeleteLeGuin's words are interesting. I'm about to turn 60 and I am noticing changes that I'm not particularly excited about!
I think, though, that women's bodies change and change and change again. Monthly, and then if we get pregnant, and then after we give birth and lactate, and then when we're perimenopausal, then menopausal. Then come the changes of older age that everyone goes through. And of course- if there are disruptions in health. It's never-ending.
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