American Health Care, Earthquakes, and MissRFTC on Twitter

I have little faith in humanity, but I’m constantly amazed by all the good things in life that emerge from personal tragedies and chaos.

During the recent earthquake in California, doctors & nurses were called upon to assist with injuries and personal emergencies. MissRFTC wrote this on Twitter about her experiences with the American health care system during the earthquake in Southern California.

  • I am totally serious. My Ob/Gyn was IN my vagina and an earthquake started rattling the room!

Dudes, American health care is the best in the world…

…and oh yeah, an internet star is born.

I don’t know if MissRFTC’s vagina has an agent or a Human Resources director, but the vag has been on both Gawker and Defamer. What’s next? The fourth hour of The Today Show with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hota Kabhi?!

I scrolled through MissRFTC’s time line, and she is great — even without the vagquake. She seems to be taking her fifteen minutes of fame in stride with this tweet:

  • Always wanted big things for my vagina. Guess I should’ve been more specific.

There are those of who are out there, writing blogs, and trying too hard. (Yes, that would be me.) Then there is MissRFTC who is awesome and benefitting from the synchronicity of the universe. I hope she gets a book deal out of this.

10 Responses to “American Health Care, Earthquakes, and MissRFTC on Twitter”


  1. 1 ita July 30, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    vagquake! i love it!

  2. 2 Laurie July 30, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    ita, you know you want one.

  3. 3 Victoria July 30, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    geez. If I had a dime for every guy who said he could make the earth move…

  4. 4 Laurie July 30, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    @Victoria Takes a skilled hand, yo. :)

  5. 5 Peopleshark July 30, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    OMG, this is as funny as the woman who put her eye out with a Victoria Secret thong.

  6. 6 Laurie July 30, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    What? Did I miss a story about a thong and an eye?

    Holy crap, I did! How did I miss THAT?

  7. 7 HR Minion July 30, 2008 at 11:01 pm

    Awkward!! And potentially painful.

  8. 8 Laurie July 30, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    @hrminion What? The thong accident or the vagquake?

  9. 9 HR Wench July 31, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    Good thing she wasn’t having brain surgery…that could have ended up badly.

  10. 10 MissRFTC August 2, 2008 at 10:08 am

    Sincere thanks for the kind words, Laurie. Lately, I have to wince every time someone sends me a link to a blog or article related to my earthquake Twitter post. Some of the comments can get mean! As if my intention was to announce “My Ob/Gyn was IN my vagina” to hundreds and hundreds of strangers. Most of my pre-earthquake Twitter followers are friends, people who know me. How could I not tell them what just happened? It was nuts! Definitely one of the funniest moments in my life and I wanted to tell everyone I knew right away. So tell them I did. With most of my Twitter posts, that’s where it ends, no one ever reposts my tweets. But in the 30 minutes that followed, the time it took to drive from my Ob/Gyn’s office to work, I had hundreds of messages from Twitter. I went from having 81 followers less than a week ago to 800+ now. I expect many of them will drop off when the VagQuakes fad is over. Thanks again for this post. It made my day!

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Laurie Ruettimann is a punk rock, Human Resources professional with extensive Fortune 500 experience. She writes and speaks about business trends, employment, Corporate America, and permanently opting-out of the rat race.

She also believes you should spay & neuter your pets.


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