Actress is out of touch
Yet more depressing insight into the life of the leaderld off theh freef world.ld Trump dedicates a whole five hours a day to presidential business. There’s three hours of tweeting and watching telly before arriving at the Oval Office at 8am. By 4pm he’s finished and by 6pm he’s tucking into a nice McDonald’s for dinner. Probably a Happy Meal. That’s what most kids like, after all. And he’d be challenged for hours by the wee toy inside. Sales of Buckfast have soared to a record high. The monks of Buckfast Abbey saw sales rise by three per cent to £43million last year. Goodness knows how many public order offences that represents or how many visits to A&E it caused. Still, the manufacturers donated £100,000 to charities last year, so that’s OK then? The distributors made a whopping £4.3million in profit. So maybeybe they could afford to up the donation. Send it to NHS Scotland. Who’d be an NHS employee right now? Scotland’s winter flu crisis must be making life miserable for healthcare workers. It’s pretty terrible being a patient too. Apologies from the FM and Health Secretary are all well and good but serious lessons must be learned. Winter takes no one by surprise. Planning and preparing for its worst should be an all-year-round process, so no one suffers like this again, medic or patient.t. Thanks T to famous beauty Catherine Deneuve for her contribution to the global movement against sexual harassment.
The 74-year-old actress signed an open letter to French newspaper Le Monde, with another 100 female “luminaries”, decrying the #MeToo campaign as a “witch hunt” against men and defending the male right to “hit on” women.
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The rest of us live in the real world, where the “sexual liberty” of which Ms Deneuve is so fond is all about equality, consent and freedom, not power, coercion and control.
A famous beauty she may be. But her outdated view of “la différence” is deeply unappealing.
Hav ing a t i ny coi l manoeuvred directly into their fallopian tubes was meant to make life better for women like Sandra. So much better that they were prepared to tolerate a degree of discomfort, not to mention indignity, while having it inserted.
Funny how no one’s f logging a male contraceptive implant that’s embedded anywhere more sensitive than the upper arm, incidentally. But I digress.
Sandra suffered excruciating pain during the procedure, could barely walk for days afterwards and has been in constant pain for the four years since. And we now know that she’s far from alone in believing the Essure device has blighted her life.
In fact, Essure’s website now carries the warning: “Some patients implanted with the Essure System for Permanent Birth Control have experienced and/or reported adverse events, including perforation of the uterus and/or fallopian tubes, identification of inserts in the abdominal or pelvic cavity, persistent pain, and suspected allergic or hypersensitivity reactions.”
It is truly distressing that women were
All of this comes hard on the heels of the scandal over mesh implants, of course, devices to correct prolapse or incontinence following childbirth but which left some women in crippling agony and others with lasting disability.
A human rights lawyer representing 500 Scottish patients has described mesh implants as “ticking time bombs” in women’s bodies and billions of dollars in compensation has already been paid to American victims. The Scottish Government suspended their use here in 2014 but stopped short of enforcing an outright ban.
And now we have this: Controversial contraceptive implants, the sale of which has been halted by the manufacturer in all countries except the US. For commercial reasons, they say.
But some 2000 Scots women are believed to have them inside their bodies already – it’s not a return-with-receipt commercial contract for them.
Who could blame them if they feel victimised and failed and downright furious? We should all be furious. These women are mothers, wives, partners, sisters, daughters. They’re precious.
Gynaecological health is a sensitive and personal subject and the “embarrassment factor” holds many back from seeking help or revealing problems. I hope they’re inspired by women such as Sandra and every other patient who has come forward to say what has happened to them.
If we’ve learned anything over the past few difficult months, it’s that when voices are raised together, they’re difficult to ignore.