A Million Pink Ribbons Have Done Nothing for Black Women

[JustAnotherGen]

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and more likely to distrust a medical system that hasn't exactly proven itself trustworthy to the African American community.

I could go 'all the way' in the Fertility Industrial Complex - but point blank . . . I have a serious distrust that the medical community will have the best intention for me.

I don't know when my brain tripped that wire - I think it was my 'second' rheumy I 'fired' who told me it wasn an all in the head fibromyalgia when we have xrays of back my fusing itself and damage to my hips (I have A.S.) - on and high c-reactive and HLB-27. And a solid diagnosis. And one confirmed by my NEW rheumy.

But I don't trust 'em . . .

So you have affluent, educated black women who DO have access to top tier health care but we know we've been used as guinea pigs and are 'throw aways' - and so there is a fear there. I'm not the only one.