Cassandra Disque | August 28, 2008
Movies about the quintessential teenage experience (whatever that is) tend to represent a common theme about people with disabilities: they’re stuck in the nerd crowd, the slow crowd, the crowd that gets made fun of. If a teenager has a device that is used to improve his or her -anything- and to bring that quality [...]
Cassandra Disque | August 19, 2008
Probably everyone who knows me at this point knows that for five years I have had a really serious pain in the left side of my ass. It’s prevented me from working, sitting, having sex, riding a bicycle, exercising, and basically just being a normal person. During the past HALF DECADE, I was on Medicaid [...]
Cassandra Disque | August 16, 2008
It’s impressive at 21, cute at 24, kinda sad and a let down at 27, and completely dull and pathetic at 30. Time to come up with a new plan. “Dog fostering housewife” is all I’ve come up with so far. I’m not so fond of this responsible adult thing. It’s disturbing that all my [...]
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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