TheDoctorsTV and Naming Private Parts: The Things That Mark Women’s Health Issues
OK…maybe my opinion about this episode of TheDoctorsTV show about women’s health issues ages me, but I am wise after 55 years of living as a strong woman. It bewilders me that so many younger women create such wild and crazy issues in their cosmopolitan lives.
I never had to concern myself or my children over the weird little nicknames and zany name for our reproductive organs which Dr. Lisa and her comedian guest calls ‘private parts’. My two children knew what an alveoli and a meniscus and an olecranon and a penis and a vagina were from the early years when they were learning to speak English. They also got to hear me say either bowel movement, stool, or poop. Breasts are breasts and we do not demean them by calling them boobs, or ‘the girls’, or anything other than what they are…or else one develops an attitude which is the breeding ground for disease in that organ or system. The way you feel and think about your human body determines the health or the weakness that it exhibits.
I am glad to be from an older,more rational generation. We didn’t have so many disease models and strange attitudes that were attached to our sexuality and thus, we didn’t encounter the prevalence of cancer and other degenerative diseases that are so rampant in young women today.
Doctors deal with disease, obviously. We approach the human body from a state of well-being. Love your body, love your Life….and you’ll be strong and healthy.
We took our children into the public restrooms until we naturally felt that either our child or other people felt any level of discomfort. Then we took great pride in instilling a sense of self-sufficiency in our children by being able to manage their own toilet time on their own while we waited at the door of the appropriate gender’s restroom. It was never a matter for serious debate, it was all about reason and respect.
In times past, our own extended family of grandmothers, mothers, aunts, and family female friends with children instructed us in the ways of breastfeeding our new infant. It was passed from generation to generation, instead of having a medical professional teach a class. But it is a good thing that young mothers have the option and Dr. Jim can refer his patients for assistance and training.
Long gone are the days when our families did for us what doctors are expected to do now…even if the information has to be shared on a national TV show.
Women’s health issues are curious and it’s helpful that Dr. Lisa can answer so many questions posed by those without a family support system.
Ladies and daughters…be well and teach your next generation to live a healthy Lifestyle.
