so, I went to the doctor....

[rm]

Right, so just went to the 24-hour clinic, because I have a UTI and that was too unpleasant not to get drugs for RIGHT NOW.

As per usual, there are a billion questions, including things about sexual orientation and how I know I have a UTI. These things are related, as women often get UTIs after penetrative sex, so the whole thing sort of came up in a context of "I've had these before, but not in ages because it happened more often when I was having it on with boys, but trust me, I know what this is and exactly how I got it" and also because the paperwork asked.

I was wearing, for the record, a white t-shirt, black pants and a black jacket. And a push-up bra ( really only have tow type sof bras -- push-up bras and bras I use for binding. There is no neutral). Sure I have short hair, and when I'm at the doctor's office and not freaked out I'm pretty calm and in control and authoratative and when I don't feel well, my voice tends to pitch lower, but seriously folks, if you've met me, and while it's easy for me to read as masculine, it doesn't really happen without effort. At all.

So imagine my "WTF?" when the doctor, very deliberated maked an x on the little line dividing the male and female boxes on my perscription form. Was it a 60+-year-old doctor trying to be cool about bisexuality and not quite getting it right? Was it bad hand-writing? (althugh his handwriting mostly didn't suck? Was it someone having a gender clue? Or was it more of the variety of the poeple at Citibank who call me "sir" even when I'm wearing lipstick and high heels.

The world may never know.

But now I'm home. And I have Cipro.

Comments

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

It has to do with making sure the correct person is picking up the prescription, so the pharmacy has correct identifying information. All that relates to the concerns about prescription abuse, theft of drugs, pharmacy competency, etc.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

And yet I send my boyfriend to pick up my birth control pills all the time! (Although I think I had to sign a form saying he was my designated drug picker-upper.)

[st-aurafina.livejournal.com]

How strange! Australian scripts don't have a box for gender - we have all the same concerns regarding abuse and drug-seeking behaviour and so on, though.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

But do you have the totally cracked out government War on Drugs we do here? ;)