i agree Akua,Dalton, you are the only people on the planet that will put up with my pain and frustrations! for instance, had a spat with my family Dr the other day. The only think that has given me any shade of relief from the piercing pain in my side has been hydrocodone with atavan. the neuronton hasn't helped there and the baclofin hasn't helped there and the lyrica hasn't either. He told me that if i didn't slow down with the hydrocodone that this time next year i would be addicted to it. so with my fashionable humor i politely asked him what happened with the past 2.5 years that i have been taking it? all i wanted hm to do was to continue the status quoe. i was getting 60 pills of hydrocodone about every 22 days that's an average of @ 3 a day sometimes less. they are the 5/500's my last family Dr said i wasn't taking a dosage that would hurt me. so in my analogy and metaphorically speaking,,,,Dr's kill me! theres a pain clinic not far from here. A man i worked with goes there for back pain. he is taking the same things i take other than the neuronton and baclofin,so whats the point? i asked the Dr if he was just getting tired of fooling with me. I almost lost it with him. almost allowed the baclofin do all the talking! for lack of a better way of putting it,,i stay pissed off a lot. but i would rather be aggravated that panfully jerking TM love it or hate it it is the same result,,misery,pity,and pain. I thank God for this list!
--- On Thu, 12/30/10, Dalton Garis <malugss...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Dalton Garis <malugss...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [TMIC] OT: REQUEST To: "Akua" <a...@artfarm.com>, tmic-list@eskimo.com Date: Thursday, December 30, 2010, 11:25 PM Please, friends; For some of us this is the only refuge wherein we can deal honestly with our frustrations, our isolation and our sense of hopelessness from what has taken over our bodies. Those who before, we had considered friends and family, have long since taken their leave of us. We must under all circumstances, try to support one another. No one other than our own selves can say what our mental and emotional progress is supposed to be through this great life trial. All things will pass away and good deeds alone will remain. To the truth of this, every divinely revealed Book and Testament has declared. Certainly, when we leave this life of pain and disappointments, we will be asked of our doings, and our capacity to sustain each other during times of difficulty and to maintain our relationships regardless of hardships, will place us in safety. Good things blot out bad things. Let’s try to help each other. Dalton Office: +971-02-607-5070/5297 Mobile: +971-50-668-5760-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Akua <a...@artfarm.com> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:50:22 -0500 To: <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Subject: [TMIC] OT: REQUEST Resent-From: <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:50:28 -0800 I was taught -- by generally followed and adhered to example --- that if you have nothing nice to to say ABOUT someone, to say nothing. So I won't name names but will proclaim on the list, that if anyone ever again feels the need to tell me "You really need to get over your pity party and get on with your life." that they should keep their ignorance, stupidity and insensitivity to themselves. I will not be bullied or shamed into silence. I will not pretend to be happy with my lack of resources or lack of support or lack options I will not put a smiley face on my pain or my poverty I will continue to wish for, organize for and agitate for paratransit, access and better infrastructure If you don't want to read what I have to say, just skip messages with my name in the header There are ways to disagree without resorting to character assassination or insults. It just bugs me as this seems to be characteristic of national discourse: blame the victim or bully the person in need, or pain. I thought of this place as a refuge, and perhaps, publicly it is. That's what i want. So no snarky, sniping private discourse -- this is the third time this has happened to me here, which is why I'm yelling out loud about it. Akua
