Cassandra Disque | January 27, 2003
I know everyone is sick of me talking about my health. It seems like all I ever talk about on here lately. I know that I don’t do that in real life, because the few times I have gone out with or spoken on the phone with “A” or the guy I am dating right [...]
Cassandra Disque | January 23, 2003
12/23 $120.00 physical therapy appointment for Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome 12/23 $125.00 psychologist appointment for situational circumstances, identity disorder, eating disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder 12/24 $217.99 prescription refill, one month, Risperdal (anti-psychotic for Bipolar Disorder) 12/26 $120.00 physical therapy appointment 12/26 $125.00 psychologist appointment 12/29 $101.43 prescription [...]
Cassandra Disque | January 21, 2003
I would like to point out that considering the people on my friends list, I feel like I have big, fat, juicy ovaries (even as they no longer function) for posting this, as I am probably going to alienate all but four or five people, and the majority of those will not even know what [...]
Cassandra Disque | January 17, 2003
I had this therapist once who instilled in me the idea of “looking positive.” The concept was that if you put effort into how you looked and looked nice, you would feel better, feel nice. The problem with this is if you went to the trouble of spending two hours meticulously bathing, rubbing in various [...]
Cassandra Disque | January 15, 2003
Since May I have been presented with a plethora of painful truth-type facts that I have not wanted to face about myself. I have struggled to cope with these, mostly on my own, without even the help of my therapist, while living out the best year of my life. The facing of these facts, however, [...]
Since 1996, my life has been a long journey of visiting one doctor after another. I look more or less fine, but I'm not. My daily pill count is like playing the dozens with a hospice patient. One doctor will say I'm doomed, and send me to another for treatment, but the treating doctor will find nothing within his or her area of practice that can be treated.
My life is better than a comedy, better than a drama. Anyone who has done this knows what I mean when I say that you have to not only know the rules, but also play the part in order to be allowed in the game. Most people find what we go through in the medical merry-go-round to be unbelievable, which is why I call it "The Drag of Gimp."
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