There's nothing sexist about it. She was a mess, I helped her deal with her problems, she greatly appreciates the help.
My point was that people's presentations have a context. She was an emotional wreck because of all the different kinds of "stress" that she was dealing with -- unresolved "birth trauma" (umbilical cord wrapped around her neck), "adverse childhood experiences", etc.
Her tonsils were extracted because her doctors didn't know what else to do. If they'd known to look deeper than the presenting symptom, she might still have her tonsils.
I responded to robbiep's comment edit above, please look for that too.
No, I'm saying that birth trauma (related to a Nuchal Cord [0], and possibly a breech birth [edit: just confirmed she was born breech; doctor tried pulling her out with forceps and the nuchal cord wrapped around her neck made her birth more traumatic than usual) was one of the factors behind her later development of inflamed tonsils. Bad childhood experiences contributed to her being unable to cope with life when we met.
In no study was it possible by ultrasound to
distinguish between a loose or a tight cord,
although at least 3 attempted to do so.[citation
needed] Peregrine[2] concludes that ultrasound
diagnosis of nuchal cords will only be useful if
doctors are able to do so reliably and predict
which of those fetuses are likely to have a
problem.
I typed my first comment in this thread out on my phone. Subsequent comments were done using a keyboard. I suppose when challenging conventional wisdom I should restrict myself to using an actual keyboard to develop my post more.
My point was that people's presentations have a context. She was an emotional wreck because of all the different kinds of "stress" that she was dealing with -- unresolved "birth trauma" (umbilical cord wrapped around her neck), "adverse childhood experiences", etc.
Her tonsils were extracted because her doctors didn't know what else to do. If they'd known to look deeper than the presenting symptom, she might still have her tonsils.
I responded to robbiep's comment edit above, please look for that too.