Cassandra Disque | December 22, 2009
Somehow, I managed to come of age thinking I fit a U.S. size nine shoe. In the past year, I’ve learned I actually fit a U.S. size eight on the left foot and size eight and half on the right foot (or is it the other way around?). That’s a literal fact as well as [...]
Cassandra Disque | December 19, 2009
My husband let me open a Christmas present early. It turned out to be a version of this: except in fuzzy light pink fleece. Mine doesn’t have a drop bottom, but it does have booties, an attached hood, a kangaroo pouch, and “Cassbot” embroidered on the chest. It makes me look an elongated, but still [...]
Cassandra Disque | December 7, 2009
Yeah, I lost my SSI today because Matt makes about $100 too much per month for me to qualify. Which means I no longer qualify for Medicaid or any of those other things… but it’s not like Medicaid was paying for anything, anyway. Shit, we fucking GOT MARRIED because Medicaid wouldn’t pay for the surgery [...]
Cassandra Disque | December 1, 2009
There was a dead fawn on the side of the highway near my dad’s office today. I happened to drive by it, then saw my dad pulling into his parking lot. I followed him, flagged him down, and got him to drive back up the road with me. In my car’s trunk is a box [...]
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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