The Writer's Block

Just today I ran across this article posted in April of this year in the New York Times about a experimental technique for gallbladder surgery which proposes an incision in the vagina instead of the normal three small incisions in the abdomen for laparoscopic surgery. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/health/20surgery.html?ex=1181880000&en=b52e4b39a89cab26&ei=5070

And I thought, yow! As if it isn’t difficult enough that women have to give birth to living, breathing adorable children through this sacred chasm we are blessed with, but now doctors are proposing that the vagina is a perfect alternative location for incisions to remove diseased organs which are no longer useful to us.

The reasoning the doctors stated for using this alternative method is because they report that the vagina is less sensitive than abdominal muscles and the surgery would eliminate the external scarring that is present with the traditional laparoscopic incisions.

What? I for one do not have an abdomen that is sensitive enough to cause me to orgasm by having it rubbed or ejaculated upon. I think it is worth noting that the doctor who performed this first ever surgery in the U.S. was a man! I would assume that he does not have a vagina to represent in the matter. I would also speculate that the male-dominated medical profession sees the 66-year old woman who received the procedure as a perfect guinea pig for this experimental procedure due to her age. This poor woman not only had to endure the experimental one-inch incision in her vagina but she also had to endure the three routine laparoscopic incisions on her abdomen as well, “just in case,“ so she was unable to appreciate the benefits that the new procedure has to offer.

So that the men who read this don’t think that I am being too biased in my opinion here, I might add that that gender which is not lucky enough to have an insensible vagina, and wants an alternative to the routine abdominal incisions, has to resort to having their gallbladder removed through their rectum!

The article states that U.S. doctors became interested in using “natural openings of the body” for minor surgeries after a video of another barbaric surgery done in India was publicized showing a woman having her appendix surgically removed through her mouth.

Excuse me while I cough up a lung.