Moments of Permanence - Still not dead

From: sami Date: May 8th, 2013 02:25 am (UTC) (Link)

I recall you mentioning a couple of incidents with that. It's sort of unbelievable the things that have happened to him.

I'm fortunate, in that my hypermobility is *usually* not something that causes me pain issues (in fact, it's probable that it's saved me a few times from breaking something, allowing me to strain muscles instead). The only time I've had a doctor deliberately overbend my joint was the doctor explaining to me (when I was about twenty-seven) that I am hypermobile.

I somehow didn't know until then. The doctor I was talking to had started out thinking I was faking injury for insurance purposes. He had suggested I'd been poking/manipulating my shoulder to aggravate it in the waiting room, based on my skin being all bright red. I told him it was because he'd been pokking it, he said that wasn't enough to cause that much redness, I had to show how reactive my skin is by running my finger down my arm and showing him the red line that flared behind it.

Doctors are kind of stupid sometimes.

(Of course, then we had the conversation that went, "And you're double-jointed." "No I'm not." Which didn't go flawlessly.)

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From: trouble Date: May 8th, 2013 05:08 pm (UTC) (Link)

I love when doctors assume you must be lying. Because, you know, those big disability cheques. I don't even. *sigh*

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