Cassandra Disque | May 28, 2008
Illness. Swollen glands, sore throat, running a fever. Deep muscle pain in certain areas. Scratchy cough. Chills and hot flashes. Weakness and labored breathing. Rapidly palpitating heart from walking up the stairs, which caused no such effect one week ago. Stubborn heart burn and upset stomach from the smallest, blandest of foods. Mania. Irritability has [...]
Cassandra Disque | May 11, 2008
In a little more than three semesters, I’ll have a degree. Summer, Fall, Spring, and Winter semester, too, actually, because of the rest of the remedial math pre-cursors I still have to take in order to take ONE math class with credit (and thus, meet the bare minimum math requirement). In other words, this is [...]
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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