This is so scary. I didn't have anything to do today so I just browsed through some websites, including this forum, and I read some topics in the Intersex Forum. Two hours later, we started watching an episode of House that we had recorded, from Tuesday, 2/24/2009 (FOX). It was about a thirteen-and-a-half year old boy, named Jackson... did any one see that? I was just kind of freaked because of that coincidence
For those who haven't seen that episode:
In the "prologue", there's this doctor guy talking to a couple - the wife had just given birth to a baby. He tells them about the baby being intersex (I don't remember him saying anything specific, sorry), and they are somewhere between
and
...
13 years later, we meet the same couple in a middle school gym, watching a basketball game. We see a young boy, very... petite (I thought he looked like a mouse
)... He scores the last, uh, point? like one second before the game is over, and he's sooo happy, but then he passes out in the middle of the court, and is taken to the hospital... He has some kind of "pelvic pain" (I was like, maybe, if he has ovaries, he just got his first period and there was no where for the blood to get out... ? Although, I guess, you wouldn't pass out because of that).
By the way, his parents never told him that he was born intersex. He thinks the testosterone shots he gets are vitamins... and he doesn't even enjoy basketball that much, he wanted to dance, but his mom made him do either basketball or hockey. She wants him to become a "man". His dad would have been okay with it... Oh, and did I mention he's suicidal, too?
Meanwhile, House takes methadone, which is some kind of drug that's legal but really dangerous and may be lethal (it stops lung function or something), because it eliminates his leg pain... Some lady whose name I forgot says she'll fire him if he doesn't stop taking that, so he says he'll quit.
And they did like a scan for a blind uterus (his parents wanted that), but he doesn't have one, then they do this thing where they shove a tiny camera up his penis (ewww), and he has like a heart failure or something... While he's in the hospital, he develops all these other symptoms: Heart, kidney & liver problems, blood vomiting...
That's as far as I got. Did anyone see the end?
Any other comments?
Love,
Katie
