You know the sappy novel by Nicholas Sparks about star-crossed lovers that was made into an even sappier chick flick starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams?
Yeah well, I got to see the sequel last night. Only in my version, both characters are from the wrong side of the tracks, and the Ryan Gosling character was actually a crack dealer and the Rachel McAdams character was a crack addict Native American (member of the Fydallaho tribe), and they both united for a brief moment of shared passion.
Only Ryan reneged on the agreed-upon price upon discovery that three crack rocks, five bucks and a three-piece white meat box from Church’s Chicken was far too much to pay for cooter that smelled like a decaying codfish and was infested with condyloma. (not work safe or for the weak of stomach).
So Rachel, spurned by her true love, flipped the hell out and proceeded to take her promised payment out of his hide in the form of a world-class ass whipping. That, of course, is where I came in.
But other than that, it was exactly like the movie.
Man, I’m such a sucker for a real love story.
I thought that only the person in the back could call for a doggie stop.
I thought that only the person in the back could call for a doggie stop.
Wow. I was passing along information and even linked the CDC site from which it can all be gleaned so that you can see for yourself that it is not just supposition or – dear heaven forbid, some sort of passing of judgment on anyone. If you inferred what you apparently did from <>that<>, then I am sorry for your confusion <>and <>for what appears to be a defensive nature betrayed by your anonymous posting. It’s simply a very widespread problem that the public is undereducated about, and which does greatly affect women in particular and cause a great deal of trouble and fear for them. When a “healer” sees as much of it as many of us have and do, (and as we offer tissues and support when they find out they have these things and they <>themselves<> think they’re lepers because of it – I even had one poor woman ask me if she could ever <>pick up and hold her toddler again<>) then we naturally desire to educate the public to prevent more problems down the road. It’s <>heartbreaking<>, the effects these things have on peoples’ lives, emotions, and relationships. Now, I never once said that that was the only reason a woman would have a colposcopy. Do try not to read into what I said, there. It is however, <>a<> reason, and it is an unfortunate circumstance that many women with strains of HPV that do not cause the warts on that lovely link will have to go through. In the years I worked for the GYN, fully 1/3 of the paps were coming back abnormal at any given time and many of them did require such unpleasant follow up to ensure that it was indeed HPV and not turning into cancer.Now, it <>is<> an STD. To say or suggest otherwise would be lying. As for who the source of anyone’s infection would be, I don’t begin to suggest that, only that there <>is<> one. It does not just magically appear out of nowhere. I’m sorry you found that to be impolite, but ignorance of the means to protect oneself from these troubles is tragic and unnecessary, and to allow such ignorance to continue would be negligent.
Wow. I was passing along information and even linked the CDC site from which it can all be gleaned so that you can see for yourself that it is not just supposition or – dear heaven forbid, some sort of passing of judgment on anyone. If you inferred what you apparently did from <>that<>, then I am sorry for your confusion <>and <>for what appears to be a defensive nature betrayed by your anonymous posting. It’s simply a very widespread problem that the public is undereducated about, and which does greatly affect women in particular and cause a great deal of trouble and fear for them. When a “healer” sees as much of it as many of us have and do, (and as we offer tissues and support when they find out they have these things and they <>themselves<> think they’re lepers because of it – I even had one poor woman ask me if she could ever <>pick up and hold her toddler again<>) then we naturally desire to educate the public to prevent more problems down the road. It’s <>heartbreaking<>, the effects these things have on peoples’ lives, emotions, and relationships. Now, I never once said that that was the only reason a woman would have a colposcopy. Do try not to read into what I said, there. It is however, <>a<> reason, and it is an unfortunate circumstance that many women with strains of HPV that do not cause the warts on that lovely link will have to go through. In the years I worked for the GYN, fully 1/3 of the paps were coming back abnormal at any given time and many of them did require such unpleasant follow up to ensure that it was indeed HPV and not turning into cancer.Now, it <>is<> an STD. To say or suggest otherwise would be lying. As for who the source of anyone’s infection would be, I don’t begin to suggest that, only that there <>is<> one. It does not just magically appear out of nowhere. I’m sorry you found that to be impolite, but ignorance of the means to protect oneself from these troubles is tragic and unnecessary, and to allow such ignorance to continue would be negligent.
Just an added note – I can see how my original comment might be perceived as flippant, but it wasn’t intended that way. There isn’t room in a blog comment to present the information in a touchy-feely way. That’s for the one-on-one personal counseling sessions. Out of respect for AD’s forum I presented the information as briefly and to the point as possible, and I was purposefully graphic because a lot of people out there simply don’t <>know<> what all this entails, and a lot of people simply understand better with a visual picture of the results down the road (I’m one of those people). Fortunately, as I indicated earlier, many of those strains clear themselves out after a couple of years – assuming there hasn’t been repeated exposure in that time. But some don’t. Some will kill a woman. Others will simply make her life miserable for awhile. And with that comment, you get the picture of how it does so. Just for the record, colpo/LEEP/cone excision are all biopsy procedures. HPV is the < HREF="http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f01/web1/pendzich.html" REL="nofollow">leading cause of cervical cancer<>. Not the <>only<> cause. The <>leading<> cause. And where one infection exists, others often follow along in the same package.Join me sometime, as we comfort a young woman who lands in the ER with some strange symptoms after her first post-divorce boyfriend, who she had fallen in love with, gave her chlamydia, warts, & herpes; and try to comfort her and give her some sort of peace as she goes home, brokenhearted and ashamed to face her family, to await the results of her HIV test. Join me as we see a young woman who, along with her husband, is thrilled to learn that they are expecting their first child, and at the same time is examined for “little blisters”, a woman whose husband had only developed a little reddening a few weeks before…join me as she is told that she now has herpes, and mourn with me as she divorces him and aborts their child. Gleeful at comeuppance? Not hardly. See enough of that kind of thing over the course of 20 years, and then see if you don’t also wish to make sure people at least have the information needed to at least make an <>informed decision <>about what they do.But now…crack dealers and their clientele…they’re pretty much on their own.
Just an added note – I can see how my original comment might be perceived as flippant, but it wasn’t intended that way. There isn’t room in a blog comment to present the information in a touchy-feely way. That’s for the one-on-one personal counseling sessions. Out of respect for AD’s forum I presented the information as briefly and to the point as possible, and I was purposefully graphic because a lot of people out there simply don’t <>know<> what all this entails, and a lot of people simply understand better with a visual picture of the results down the road (I’m one of those people). Fortunately, as I indicated earlier, many of those strains clear themselves out after a couple of years – assuming there hasn’t been repeated exposure in that time. But some don’t. Some will kill a woman. Others will simply make her life miserable for awhile. And with that comment, you get the picture of how it does so. Just for the record, colpo/LEEP/cone excision are all biopsy procedures. HPV is the < HREF="http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f01/web1/pendzich.html" REL="nofollow">leading cause of cervical cancer<>. Not the <>only<> cause. The <>leading<> cause. And where one infection exists, others often follow along in the same package.Join me sometime, as we comfort a young woman who lands in the ER with some strange symptoms after her first post-divorce boyfriend, who she had fallen in love with, gave her chlamydia, warts, & herpes; and try to comfort her and give her some sort of peace as she goes home, brokenhearted and ashamed to face her family, to await the results of her HIV test. Join me as we see a young woman who, along with her husband, is thrilled to learn that they are expecting their first child, and at the same time is examined for “little blisters”, a woman whose husband had only developed a little reddening a few weeks before…join me as she is told that she now has herpes, and mourn with me as she divorces him and aborts their child. Gleeful at comeuppance? Not hardly. See enough of that kind of thing over the course of 20 years, and then see if you don’t also wish to make sure people at least have the information needed to at least make an <>informed decision <>about what they do.But now…crack dealers and their clientele…they’re pretty much on their own.
ME hit the nail on the head- There needs to be tons more of STD/HPV education then hopefully there wouldn’t be as many pictures like that one! And that one was really sorta mild- I’ve seen one as large as a soccer ball. Can you imagine walking around with that between your legs? The patient really couldn’t do much walkin when it got that big- She died from cervical cancer no doubt!
ME hit the nail on the head- There needs to be tons more of STD/HPV education then hopefully there wouldn’t be as many pictures like that one! And that one was really sorta mild- I’ve seen one as large as a soccer ball. Can you imagine walking around with that between your legs? The patient really couldn’t do much walkin when it got that big- She died from cervical cancer no doubt!
aw, and the lady in the picture was a redhead too, what a shame…
aw, and the lady in the picture was a redhead too, what a shame…