NMF: Healthcare Horrors ft. Emma Hardy
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Time for a Nightmare Fuel and I'm here with Emma Hardy, the author of Periodic Bitch. We did a full episode that's already out. Go to the feed to hear all about her memoir about PMDD and monsters and all things female rage, essentially. We're doing a little Nightmare Fuel together because this one is about medical... Medical access.
Yes, healthcare access.
Yes.
Right, which we thought would be a good one. So I haven't heard it. You haven't heard it, Emma.
I have no idea what's about to happen.
So we will see what this chook has to say. All right.
Hey, Abby and the team. I'm a big fan. I've been wanting to send in a nightmare for you for a while as I do have a few, maybe even one's a little too juicy for the podcast. Yeah. Sorry, this one is really long, but I think you'll love it, Abby. I was listening to the Bella Johnson episode today and I was inspired to send in a little medical journey or better known as my nightmare fuel.
Yes, the Bella Johnson episode is so good. You actually like it, Emma. It's Bella's journey in essentially medical misogyny leading her to not get a diagnosis of something. I'm not going to...
What are the experiences of medical misogyny shared in this episode?
spoiler or anything but something quite severe for years and years and years there was an assumption that she had you know a mental health condition but actually it was a real life thing i don't want to i don't know is that is it is it weird to say a spoiler on someone's real life i guess not i don't know but i love what i'm dealing with with the memoir it's like i can't tell you that it's a spoiler yeah it's like i know you personally yeah But yeah, that episode is fucking crazy. So let's see what it's inspired from this listener.
Filled with heaps of medical gaslighting and like psychosomatic pain and sorry if I'm not using the correct term, but you know what I mean. Now by no means is my experience as bad as Bella's, but I just wanted to spread more awareness and start more conversations around women's health and lack thereof adequate access. So I'm going to leave the eventual findings of my medical issues until the end. So it's a fun little journey like it was for me. So a little backstory. I'm from a little country town in like central north New South Wales. And like the biggest or like a bigger hospital is like an hour away. And then the bigger hospitals are like Newcastle and Sydney. So this journey started when I was about like 12, 13.
I was always in pain. When I'd visit the hospital, they'd always say, no, it's just puberty, like it's just your period starting. Nothing was ever done. This is exactly what we were talking about.
Yes. And they go, no, it's just normal to be in pain.
How does Emma Hardy define Nightmare Fuel in relation to healthcare?
It's normal.
To be a woman is to suffer.
Yeah, just suffer. You'll be also at 12 and 13. A child. It's awful.
I was literally given like oxy and codeine.
What?
What the fuck? At 12.
That's crazy. What the hell? Is this America? What the hell is happening? That's psycho. Just so anyone, Oxy is essentially. An opiate. Yeah. It's essentially like heroin.
It's like a slightly lower level morphine.
Yes, that is extremely addictive and you can also overdose on it and to give that to a 12-year-old is – that alone would be a nightmare for you, the first 20 seconds. That's fucked.
But also imagine the amount of pain.
Oh, yes.
And then you've got to go to school. It makes you really, really tired and sleepy.
Oxys at age – in year seven doing that plan. What the fuck? Isn't that plan a thing down here? Okay, cool. Sorry. Sometimes I make Queensland jokes and I go, oh, it's like being at the caco. People go, people from Sydney don't get it, you know.
What personal medical journey does the listener share?
Ripe old age of 12, 13. And then at 14 I was put on birth control pretty quickly. This like masks the symptoms of being in pain all the time but obviously didn't fix them.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:36
2
What are the experiences of medical misogyny shared in this episode?
1:36–3:06
3
How does Emma Hardy define Nightmare Fuel in relation to healthcare?
3:06–4:11
4
What personal medical journey does the listener share?
4:11–8:24
5
What challenges did the listener face in getting a proper diagnosis?
8:24–14:22
6
How did the medical professionals respond to the listener's pain?
14:22–19:13