u/doomermarxist

Update…
I’m angry, depressed, isolated, and have ideation about kms.
I hate my surgeon for his lack of honesty and transparency about what the “decision”was when choosing surgery. And honestly I’d like to pursue him legally for lack of informed consent. The trade off was risk of hemorrhage over a lifetime or a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) now. Well… a year and 9 months after surgery and I can barely hold down a job and I suffer from Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO) or an adjacent condition where people’s faces are melting and shifting. Imagine if you had to work with that.
I think about my surgeon saying that I would go onto live a “normal life”
I’m NOT going to perform normal for you so you can feel better about yourself and your botched surgery. And nor am I going to perform normal for the rest of you. To hold down a job or whatever.
So I’m definitely quitting my job at the end of this school year. I don’t care. I absolutely hate the people I work with and their expectations of me. I cannot believe that the system is just allowed to give us a TBI supposedly to help us (prevent hemorrhage) and then literally give us no support financially or employment wise.
Support is reduced to individualism and coping via therapy and “rehab” which puts all the responsibility and work and stress and effort onto US the survivors and the ones with injury.
It’s an embarrassment.
I’m probably going to leave the U.S. … even though everything is incredibly hard with a TBI… it’s something worth fighting for. America is a shithole full of vacuous people.