Erica 💜🦊 @packetcharmer@witches.town

@cute_weeds @maritroniuity the most fucked up thing is I’m not a doctor but I can do a better job of managing a HRT regimen than they can.

@maritroniuity @cute_weeds so they upped you to 200mg/day without even knowing if you need it? Even though that forces you to to take another pill because that much spiro raises your potassium higher than your heart doctor wants?

@mallaidh such an amazing cat

@rey who’s the healer, and who’s doing DPS?

@bea @cute_weeds I mean worst case I can just give her one of my spare bottles of estradiol until she can get up here to some better doctors.

@cute_weeds I mean to be fair I don’t expect doctors to know all the ins and outs of the insurance system, that’s what the billing department is for. Still though, this reaction and lack of interest in following up really blew my mind. Not sure if they’re discriminating against her for being poor, trans, or Hispanic, but either way fucking wow.

@synthgal getting her and her things moved from where she is to whoever has a place for her.

@bea @cute_weeds she started with patches before pills. She’s been pushing for injections and then the doctors respond “we don’t know if your insurance covers that”
A. Fucking find out then
B. For a girl with a heart condition I’m sure they can file for an exception
C. I wish I could be there for her at every appointment but she’s 1000 miles away

@cute_weeds She’s in rural California, 60 mile drive to Fresno where her doctors are. I’m not sure what guidelines they’re basing their decisions on or if they’re deferring to her cardiologist’s opinions. I’m trying to get her to move up to Seattle with me, but she’s overdue for some heart surgery to fix a valve issue(that you can hear when listening to her heartbeat, it’s pretty freaky). That surgery needs to happen before she leaves California.

@cute_weeds I got on the phone with her to try to get through to them and they act like they’re fucking doing her a favor by giving her that much. “Are you a doctor?” they asked me as I protested. Later I realized I should’ve retorted “Are you transgender?” Another interesting thing is my partner and I are pretty sure she’s intersex which is something that’s not even on their radar.

@cute_weeds I completely agree. So many doctors don’t seem to understand how important transition is to us. One of my partners has a heart condition and a pacemaker and she’s been having trouble getting the doctor to raise her above 2mg/day because they keep citing the heart condition even though her levels aren’t where they should be.

@cute_weeds my only experience with this issue before is a friend who was having trouble finding a doctor who would put her on HRT with sickle cell, though she also wasn’t getting enough medical care to begin with

@cute_weeds sounds full of shit to me as well, sickle cell would make surgery more risky sure, but far from impossible IMO

@KitRedgrave if it keeps happening I can give you access to a kali instance on my KVM server

@KitRedgrave what VM software are you using?

@KitRedgrave @dredmorbius YOLO pentesting