Cassandra Disque | June 30, 2008
Follow-up appointment with the orthopedist today. Had seven year’s worth of reports, MRIs and X-Rays there with me. The team agreed that in 2001, when they performed arthroscopic surgery on me, they underestimated the shallow condition (it should be deeper) of the area behind my patella (kneecap). All they did was drain my knee of [...]
Cassandra Disque | June 12, 2008
Thursday afternoon I have to meet with the state’s Dept. of Rehabilitation to discuss with them what’s been going on since September and why it is I haven’t reached the education goals I had agreed to complete in the contract I had to sign with them. (Though why it should matter to them that I [...]
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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