Cassandra Disque | January 21, 2009
I have thoroughly OD’d on Obama and the non-stop coverage. I fear I am the only liberal in the city to have done so. I would say the only one in the country, but gynocide feels the same way. Something about working for nine hours under two TVs blaring CNN on Inauguration Day that just [...]
Cassandra Disque | January 1, 2009
Happier these past few weeks. Med increase helped the mood, I believe. Has not helped the weight. I was saddened last night, while attempting to get dressed for work, to find that only 5% of my wardrobe now fits me. One pair of jeans and some t-shirts. None of my skirts, dresses, or tops fit [...]
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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