Marital Status

[judecorp]

Hee. So my health insurance kicks in tomorrow. (YAY!) So I finally got around to calling to set up a Primary Care Physician and make an appointment for an annual physical, since I usually get them in November. (Good timing on the insurance front, right?) I'm giving the guy on the phone all of my "new patient" information, and he asks me, "Are you single or married?" I was totally caught off guard and was like, "Ummm... well... neither?" He laughed and said he could write "Other."

I would think that at Fenway Health they would ask more than "Single or Married"! SHEESH!

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[jucifer.livejournal.com]

I went to your user info page and saw pics of you.
I added you.
You rock.
You are inspirational.
You are cool.

(I was going to respond to you in a boston community, however, I thought it would be more appropiate here.)

Welcome to the Mutual Admiration Society!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess the b0st0n community has now been good for something! I can never get enough of some boobie-loving rebel mamas, and there's one in my very own city! (Score!)

I love the paintings in your userpics. While you can't be My Favorite Local Artist (because The Girl always takes that prize), I'd give you an Honorable Mention. And I don't usually add people back right away, but I can't help it, I added you back.

Thanks! I'm blushing. (I used to be much cooler. Now I'm getting old.)

Swallow, sorry I missed your birthday...

[goddamnelf.livejournal.com]

Happy Birfday! From what I read, it seems to have been pretty good.

And in regard to the state amendment. Louisiana passed one only last month. They did not talk about it, and I did not even hear about it,from the ACLU. If my parents had not mentioned it, I would not have been able to vote against it, though it passed anyway. People are foolishly ignorant of how they are stepping on our civil rights.

love and happy birthday wishes,
mike

Re: Swallow, sorry I missed your birthday...

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the birthday wishes! I hope things are still going well in your neck of the woods and that life is still moving along swimmingly. I think of you more when I don't hear from you for a while, so I guess absence truly DOES make the heart grow fonder! And oh, my heart is fond!

I'm sorry the amendment passed in Louisiana. It's so amazing to me how churches don't want the state to legislate what they can and can't do, but churches want to legislate what the state can and can't do. It's baffling. I've still yet to hear an argument against same-sex marriage that isn't based in religion, and I just don't get it.

The basis of marriage law was essentially property rights. Sometimes I wonder if the far right wouldn't prefer reverting all the way back to that. *sigh*

Re: Welcome to the Mutual Admiration Society!

[oxlahun.livejournal.com]

Getting? :)

Re: Welcome to the Mutual Admiration Society!

[thatpatti.livejournal.com]

happy late birthday! :)

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I especially loved the way my doctor handled the next questions after that at my physical in January. After learning that I was, in fact, in a relationship, and with a man, which she regarded as singular, she asked me how often he beat me up.

I was rather taken aback. =)

Re: Welcome to the Mutual Admiration Society!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Hush.

Re: Welcome to the Mutual Admiration Society!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Like, just flat out asked you? WOW.

I remember once when A. and I first started dating, I was visiting him and his roommates in Maine and we were all playing Frisbee. It wasn't Ultimate Frisbee, but we were being idiots and tackling each other and all of that. A.'s roommate James shouldered me in the arm pretty hard, and I got an ENORMOUS bruise, the deep purple kind that takes forever to go away.

Later that week I had to go to urgent care for a work-related injury, and the nurse saw the bruise on my arm and asked where I got it. "Playing Frisbee," I replied, and she was /so/ dubious. She kept asking if I had a boyfriend and if he had a temper. I laughed my way to the car.

But yeah. I love those wellness questions. Like when they ask if I'm sexually active and I say yes. And then they ask if I'm married and I say no. And then there's the, "What do you mean, you're not using protection?" issues. HA.

[gimmeapony.livejournal.com]

i'm glad you're going to Fenway. They're such good people over there. A few years ago, I had a (miserable horrible) temp job answering phones for various medical institutions/paging doctors/etc and the Fenway people were some of the nicest out of the bunch. I forget the name of the doctor who I always used to deal with, but he was downright awesome. I could page that man at 3am because one of his patients needed something and he wouldn't so much as grumble about it. Ugh I wish I could remember his name.

[bingothemonkey.livejournal.com]

I adore your icon!!!! My favorite questions are the ones where they ask very specific questions about sex. . ."Oral? Anal?, etc." What is this? Penthouse Forum? I just need a damn physical!

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

Those are the best. I was once questioned about whether my then husband could have contracted and given me an STD because he had been deployed overseas the year before. The line of questions stopped when I said I was pretty sure he hadn't had sex during that time and he'd taped at least a dozen tapes full of adult movies off cable while over there.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll let you know how great it is after November 22nd, which is when my appointment is.

I went to a job interview there once, though, and all of the people I came into contact with were super nice.