Cassandra Disque | June 18, 2009
Was feeling better. Went to work last night. Started feeling horrible again, almost passed out. Went back to the doctor today. Still sick. Running a fever again. Back in bed. Back on another round of antibiotics. That is all for now. Sometimes I think my life is just one long FML submission. Don’t make me [...]
Cassandra Disque | June 9, 2009
In February, we had just over $8,000 in our savings. We now have just under $500. Mint.com is telling me, “In the past 30 days, you spent $444.49 on Health & Fitness. Usually you spend $196.” That doesn’t include our cash transactions for OTC medication in the first two weeks, nor does it include the [...]
Cassandra Disque | June 9, 2009
my blood will kill me.
Cassandra Disque | June 9, 2009
It burns when I piss now, which the doc says is from a UTI and not from kidney failure — a good sign. The cloudy urine and blood on the urethra are side effects from the strong antibiotic that I’m on. To counteract the UTI (which is apparently normal when one’s body is as fucking [...]
Cassandra Disque | June 6, 2009
I’m well into my third week of being completely bedridden. My latest tests show that the infection in my lungs — the bronchitis and the pneumonia — have actually cleared up. But I’m still really, really sick. As it turns out, I have a septic blood infection (sepsis). 40% of people with sepsis actually die [...]
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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