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 | January 21, 2009
I have thoroughly OD’d on Obama and the non-stop coverage. I fear I am the only liberal in the city to have done so. I would say the only one in the country, but gynocide feels the same way. Something about working for nine hours under two TVs blaring CNN on Inauguration Day that just [...]
Cassandra Disque | July 1, 2007
There is a lot going on right now in the news about the Supreme Court Justices ruling to limit the use of race in school plans for integration. Some are saying that this specifically overturns 1954′s Brown v. Board of Education in its entirety, while others are saying that this updates the legislation to address [...]
Cassandra Disque | November 8, 2006
#1 Mayor Governor O’Malley! #2 The House #3 Speaker Pelosi! (highest ranking US woman in politics to date!) #4 The Senate #5 Goodbye, Rummy! Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out. Watching the video of the resignation news is deliciously painful, by the way. The way he stumbles, the way he still [...]
Cassandra Disque | September 7, 2006
Over in the UK, it’s looking like there might be a coup within the currently at-large Labour party. That’s fine and dandy in principle, but to do this with an election coming up will only further advertise the strife in the party. Voters notoriously dislike a heavily divided party– after all, who and what are [...]
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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