Cassandra Disque | January 27, 2010
Remember I told you something was happening on my campus yesterday? A female student left one of her classes to go to the bathroom. In the bathroom was a guy — non-student — with a gun. He raped her. It was 3:30 in the afternoon. One of my classrooms is right across the hall from [...]
Cassandra Disque | January 2, 2010
I was in Florida to help settle up my grandparents’ estate. We barely made a dent in it; I’m going back in three weeks, having the ex’s daughter meet me there, and then we’re going to box up all the remaining photography and framing equipment and put it in storage near her house. We’re going [...]
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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