#medicalposting

[sigynpenniman]

sometimes im very normal and its 6 pm on a Thursday night and im fantasizing about a medical professional with very gentle hands to listening to my heart and giving me some sort of small minorly uncomfortable procedure perhaps a small injection or easy lab test and then kissing me on the forehead and letting me take a warm little nap

[sigynpenniman]

In an allonormative society which relegates most forms of physical or emotional closeness only to sexual-romantic relationships with very narrow exceptions for familial ones, medicine when operating at its platonic and asklepion ideal allows a framework for emotional and physical intimacy and the sharing of the body and mind with another person in a structured and definitionally platonic way providing in real life a complicated and emotional avenue for healing and relief and in fiction a completely unique framework from which to build a fantasy of intimacy and closeness that skirts traditional allonormative experience almost entirely, allowing queer and acespec people to engage with and view these concepts through a lens which feels removed from some aspects of normativity that may be unappealing. yet the reality of medicine is often so far from its asklepion ideal that these same exact features can make it a uniquely frightening and upsetting thing to deal with depending on your personal sensitivities and struggles. the soaring fictional pseudokink highs and the crashing real life systematic lows play off each other in such incredibly strong contrast to make medicine of all kinds a subject so ripe for interrogation and analysis and discussion and dissection that it has no real equal. so when I say im tens of thousands words into another think piece about the implications of stripping your body naked and submitting it for examination by someone -

[omegasmileyface]

id make a joke like. the kitchen after ive been advised to watch my triglycerides and glucose:

but i know damn well that it looks like this often lmao

[omegasmileyface]

im actually pissed though. like i had JUST finished internalizing "if youre wanting a spefific type of food that means your body needs that kind of nutrient" and "its more important that you get enough 'good' food rather than making sure you dont eat 'bad' food, eat additively not subtractively" and "any food that gets you eating is good" and it turns out thats actually not true for me. its fucking bullshit

[omegasmileyface]

look at the SIZE of these things. i have to take 2 a day. they cost a dollar apiece and taste like fish

[tarmimiazanie]

"I'm gonna fight 'em off, A seven nation army couldn't hold me back, They're gonna rip it off, Taking their time right behind my back" #MedicalPosting #DITMMY #ForTheTeam100 #HariHariSenyum #Allizwell