Cassandra Disque | July 27, 2009
Since June first, I’ve spent $435 out of pocket for my prescription medication co-pays and another $608 for doctor’s visits and visit co-pays. Getting married and getting off Medicaid was supposed to be wonderful, right? We didn’t take into account being sick long term. I miss Medicaid’s $4 co-pays. No wonder we’re so damn broke [...]
Cassandra Disque | July 21, 2009
Seeing as there’s a definitive link between Parkinson’s and narcolepsy, every time I stumble, get double vision, tremors, or what have you, I feel like I’m just that much closer to a slow, painful, completely exasperating death. Unless someone kills me first, because I haven’t had much luck with doing the deed myself. I hope [...]
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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