Cassandra Disque | November 19, 2007
An e-mail from my landlord: Cassandra–As of today, I have not heard from HOC regarding the outstanding rent. Excluding late charges, $3,198 is outstanding, I intend to intiate collection proceedings and to regain possession of the apartment unless this matter is promptly addressed. P.S. To landlord: if you want to seem intimidating, learn to spell [...]
Cassandra Disque | November 14, 2007
Thanks for being in touch the past few days. Sorry I haven’t been responsive. I’ve been doing my impression of an ostrich with my head in the sand, ignoring the outside world. My appointment on Monday at Johns Hopkins with the neurosurgeon did not go at all like I expected. It turns out that the [...]
Cassandra Disque | November 11, 2007
My landlord showed up at my front door this morning to confront me about the housing commission not having paid their portion of the rent. I told him (again) that it had nothing to do with me and that he had to send in his copies of the paperwork. He still insisted that the unpaid [...]
Cassandra Disque | November 10, 2007
Here I am. … I haven’t got much to say. Being house bound and more or less bed bound is making me cabin fever crazy. I’m not taking my Provigil so that I can nap a lot of the time I’m stuck here at home, but that also means not being alert and dozing off [...]
Cassandra Disque | November 7, 2007
Day four, five, six, seven, eight of lying in bed and watching the hours melt into one another, no longer aware of what day of the week it is, nor day of the month. I only know that I have two more weeks of this to go before I am allowed to be active again. [...]
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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