Margaret Cho has this great bit about her experience with hematuria, and finally it is somewhat relevant enough to post! (I have no idea who she saw that employs a “vagina washer,” but maybe that’s how it works in the private OB-Gyn world. Who knows.)
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Amusing, but my respect for her as a human being took a giant nosedive with the “I don’t need to know your name” comments.
Actually, I think this particular bit of hers is even better when you hear what came before – she’s riffing on her experience as the star of the really awful sitcom, “American Girl” – She was getting a lot of pressure from higher-ups for being heavy, so she had lost a huge amount of weight; I think she may have been using diuretics and god knows what else to lose that weight when the hematuria started.
Folks keep saying vagina when they mean VULVA!
She may have meant a “vaginal washing.” Maybe for research purposes, or for a clean catch urine, which would be the most logical thing.