So yes im still here, VERY busy, but still breathing great and telling my donor thank you everyday. However, this is the first time in a while that I have a long rant....sorry be prepared, I need to vent!
Yesterday I had my Health Care in Canada Delivery course. The main purpose of this course to to learn "compassion" for patients, there families, and to know how the health system in ontario works. Funny for me to be on the otherside of the picture for once. HOWEVER, yesterday started out ok....and then the teacher started talking about how some lady in the states just got 2 hand transplants and IT WORKED. That was ok sounded kool you know, then they started talking about face transplants and it went from being informative to COMPLETELY sicking. They (my teacher included)started googling face transplants and then making fun of all these people and what they looked like, then started making fun of some of them that have rejection. I was so upset I was sitting in class trying to either not yell or cry...because the only thing i was thinknig of was all the crap I went through and what those people have gone through and theres all these people MAKING fun of them. What really made me aangery is that my teacher knows I've had a transplant . I was so disgusted, all the people in my class are going into healthcare and that is COMPASSION? I found it ironic that this happened in the only class where compassion is the main thing.
Not to mention what thehell was my teacher thinking? I'm still debating emailing him, because its a 3 h class and I walked out before 1 h of it was up, it was disgusting. Who makes fun of someone that needed that..or they were looking at before and after pictures and saying " well they looked better before " haha, SICK disgusting, wrong..ignorant. I couldnt believe it.
Me and my partner have now decided were doing our presentation on transplant...and im putting some pictires of mine into the powerpoint. Maybe that will stock them. It just made me upset because Ive had people say to me..."man you've put on weight" one person said not to me, but someone I know " man she really has packed on the pounds she better go for a run" ...and that was rude..
Yes I have put on weight, but I also am still on a high dose of predisonie because of rejection, I also have highblood pressure and the pills they put me on make me have huge water retention. I look puffy no matter what..BUT IM ALIVE, SO SCREW OFF to the people that want to say stuff like that..its just hurtful.
