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Ash Hickey آشلي

@ordinaryash.bsky.social

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She/Her. Aspiring medical historian with an interest in how respectability/morality is applied to the body/illness. Based in Aotearoa. Harm reduction advocate. Dog lover. Flower afficionado. Knows how to throw together a meal. Shoddy crafter. Hot mess.

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · Dec 13

Hello AoNZ/Māori/History Bluesky . Does anyone know anything about "The Māori Dentist" pictured here at Raetihi? High chance he would not be based there full time or actually a dentist as itinerant dentistry by anyone who could wield a pair of forceps was horrifyingly typical 😬😅

Photo of two photos from an archived manuscript. The top photo shows an early car on a colonial era street. The bottom photo shows a crowd gathered around a man having a tooth removed in a dentists chair in an outdoor setting.

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 6h

Idk, maybe. There's something autoimmune happening. The health system really doesn't seem set up for these kinds of mystery, full system illnesses. I keep getting bumped between or rejected by specialists and no one takes in the full picture 🫩

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 7h

a cartoon character with the words someone else written on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon character with the words someone else written on the bottom

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 8h

Probably because I've been wearing pants and exercising my right to vote too much 🥲

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 8h

Yes...but my derm was kind of useless. My biggest skin problem (among MANY) was all he looked at and he seemed extremely offput because it's on my vulva and bum. I also have to drive an hour to see him and he stood me up once and I eventually got sick of feeling like a gross fatty with a broken vag

Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 8h

Luckily he did order blood and stool test so I'll be in a slightly better position when I see the doctor I rebooked with at the end of the month.

Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 8h

Honestly IMMEDIATELY. I barely spoke to this dude and he didn't ask a single clarifying question about my symptoms. He's just like "fatigue you say? All in your head. Next!" Only a slight exaggeration 🙃🙃🙃

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 8h

God knows how anyone who does have ongoing mental health stuff happening AND some sort of mystery chronic illness is supposed to get help 😩.

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 8h

I swear they see on my records that I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety 20 years ago (during a period where there were clear situational factors including my home being repeatedly home invaded) and, despite having no further mental health history, they think "case closed."

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 8h

Considering contacting the practice. I've written up notes.

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 8h

It was EGREGIOUS 😂😂. Like a OTT parody skit. Luckily he's just a locum filling in while they find someone to replace my recently retired doctor.

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, it's kind of freeing in a way. I've been putting off going for ages, partly because I was scared this would happen. It was so blatant and he had zero right to be that confident based on our interaction. It's so obvious it's a him problem, I shouldn't have been so worried.

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 9h

Very explicitly and firmly said psychological several times. No referral just a very patronising look and rolled yes. Pretty much the worst possible scenario as played out in my imagination when I was putting off going to the doctor and asking for help 😂😭

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 10h

There's a counselling service at my university but I'd rather not clog up a free service that others need when I don't need it.

Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 10h

Ironically, to go to this appointment I took time out from writing about how quacks often appealed to women because doctors characterised them as credulous & vulnerable to the power of suggestion & dismissed their symptoms as "functional illnesses" (i.e., hysterical/psychosomatic)...Aarrrgghh!!!

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 11h

I have health insurance which should mostly cover it *I think*. I've rebooked with another doctor but it would be nice to be able to counter this if it happens again.

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, I just remembered telehealth is a thing so I guess that broadens the location. Any of my AoNZ mutuals with chronic illness experienced something like this or have recommendations for a suitable psychiatrist?

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 11h

Mind you, this is on my first consultation with him and after barely saying ten sentences to the man about why I was there. He did not ask me about my symptoms or medical history. I'm absolutely certain my symptoms aren't psychological but I'm open to ruling it out definitively I guess.

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 11h

This is kind of an odd request but does anyone know of a good private psychiatrist in Wairarapa or Wellington with a short wait time? I just got told by a GP that the debilitating fatigue, skin, pain and digestive system symptoms I've been experiencing for many years are psychological 😒

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 18h

This was a syphilis treatment too. We don't give nearly enough credit to just how miraculous a shift there was between the pre- and post-antibiotics eras.

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 6d

I found a young chicken at the train station and picked it up because it was trying to take shelter under a bus and brought it home to keep it safe. Won't be too upset if I can't find it's home tbh. It's very very cute.

Small grey chicken sitting on a piece of cardboard inside a cage

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beckydubs @beckydubs.bsky.social · 9d

Fucking hell. This wasn’t on my radar. #nzpol thank you Emily Writes

‼️Submissions close at 2pm TODAY Oct 6th! ‼️

This amendment makes it an offense to protest *near residential areas.

This is fascist suppression of free speech 101.

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 12d

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 12d

REALLY hard to resist going down this rabbithole because my partner has just become obsessed with fishing kites and he's networking with a bunch of kite nerds and now we seem to be accumulating kites (I very much approve of this hobby).

Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 12d

I can't go down this rabbithole right now but seemingly there was a moral panic in 1887 about the youth *checks notes* flying kites 😒

Screenshot of an old newspaper. Text reads: Three lads, named John Baggest, Joseph Baggest, and Thomas Wadsworth, were charged at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, with unlawfully flying kites m George street. His Worship, tho Resident Magistrate, severely cautioned the lads and discharged them. Other small boys who are m the habit of indulging m tbe sport named should take warning, as flying all kinds of kites is a dangerous game.

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Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social · 13d

I'm a bit skint at the moment but thank you for offering larger sizes. I recently saw a business that caters to people who menstruate offering merch and their largest size for pre-order was an xl 😒

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