Today, we honour Anarcha Westcott. She was a 17-year enslaved girl who underwent roughly 30 operations without anaesthesia for a vesicovaginal fistula ( abnormal connection between vagina and bladder= urine coming through your vagina).
She healed after this surgery. James Marion Sim (we refuse to refer to him as doctor) was the racist man who performed these surgeries on her and is denoted as the father of gynaecology.
However, we would like to say Anarcha is the mother of gynaecology. Without her strength, grit, and bravery, she wouldn't have survived those procedures. We couldn't imagine doing surgery on someone without some form of anaesthesia. Black history is America's history. The story must be told even when it's not pretty.
Absolutely no one making 300k a year should be living paycheck to paycheck. Idc where you live. If you're living paycheck to paycheck with thet salary then you're making terrible life decisions