I meet with a fertility counselor this week due to an upcoming appointment I have to get my tubes tied as I know I don’t want kids. I was talking to a coworker about having some frustrations and anxiety about having this gatekeeper I need to convince and shared how it’s frustrating because you don’t just decide on a whim that you are going to get surgery and pay hundreds of dollars out of pocket (deductible before insurance kicks in) as well as jump through all the paperwork and insurance loops to have this sort of thing done. And the coworker responded with, ‘but some people do.’

😤

Okay, MAYBE there are outliers of this happening but that is true of LITERALLY ANYTHING. If this was the logic by which we operated for everything, our society would look so fucking different. You would never have a restaurant you paid after food was served. Every procedure that was explicitly demanded by a doctor would have a psyche eval.

But that’s not the case.

Honestly, I don’t mind having the counseling. What I mind is that it’s so clearly a prerequisite-not a recommendation-for this decision of MINE. Ughggg