Cassandra Disque | October 19, 2009
Last Wednesday night, I nearly cut off (as in sliced 75% of the way through) the tip off my left thumb while chopping limes with a brand new knife. Not realizing how bad the damage was, I then worked for six hours before going home. When Matt saw it, instead of letting me go to [...]
Cassandra Disque | October 10, 2009
I’m in the process of cleaning the new house, packing, moving, cleaning the apartment, and housebreaking our new ten-week-old puppy. I keep forgetting about the internet. Life’s a little overwhelming right now. Amazingly, my medication levels haven’t had to be increased to handle it. That’s pretty amazing for me. Too bad I can’t say the [...]
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."
|
