Cassandra Disque | January 20, 2004
Every time I see a new doctor, I hear the same thing: “You’re too young to be this sick.” Every time I go to a new pharmacy, I face the same situation: long lines in which customers 24-28 are filled before my 23 is, because I have three very odd prescriptions. Questions: “Why did you [...]
Cassandra Disque | January 13, 2004
Yesterday evening Mayor Williams of Washington, DC had a live interview during the five o’clock hour of NBC 4 news in which he said that the only way for DC residents to be fully represented as citizens of the U.S. may be to start performing acts of civil disobedience, which he whole heartedly backs. Williams [...]
Cassandra Disque | January 13, 2004
Wowzers. Raynaud’s phenomenon, a disease that I severely suffer from and whom very few people know about, actually made the cover of the Health section of the Washington Post today. Raynaud’s, combined with my arthritis, is why I never want to leave the house during the winter, and am seriously considering moving to Puerto Rico [...]
Cassandra Disque | January 6, 2004
Tomorrow night I go back into the sleep clinic for the sleep test again. My boss told me today that “only you could fail a sleep test. You know how fucked up you are, right?” I found out that my closest friend was speaking with a mutual friend of ours about who had done the [...]
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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