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Health Update (Patreon)

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2020-02-13 01:04:18
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2026-06
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Why the long delay? I had a post ready to go the second my brain was able to snap into place long enough to write the silly story behind the art. It could have happened at any time, so I assumed I’d luck into it eventually. But no! So I give up. Here’s a screen cap of tweets that explain things.

Medication issues defeated me. I’ve been struggling with my long term meds for the better part of a year, and it got so bad that I had to BEG my doc to put me back on meds that cause horrendous brain-melting side effects, because they at least provided some coverage, and the prior meds were making me worse and worse. I thought I could find a way to overcome the side effects if I knew they were coming. But no! I spent all of January in a haze, and I *still* don’t fully believe a month passed, because I was so addled I was not cognizant of the passage of time.

Now I’m on new meds, with meh coverage (tho still better than prior tries), but no awful side effects… and trapped in the OTHER med issues from the tweets. Failure to get my base treatments under control has now cost me two whole Botox cycles - heck, maybe three - which is unreal. I’m probably done until the ides of March. Let us pray all the insurance roadblocks are lifted by then, because the big collapse that killed my comicking ability was caused by this same premise of insurance blocking all my treatments for MONTHS, so I was set to blow when a triggering incident happened. (Another reason I’m staying in bubble wrap until I’m in the clear, and not pushing even when I might be able to. I am scared!)

Never get sick in America.

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Bill Lemmond

Chris, I'm sorry you're having so many problems. Thank you for apologizing, but I think awareness of "Spoon Theory" has grown to the point you can simply say "I'm out of spoons," and some of us will explain to the others, for you. I've been on helpful meds, only, for decades, now. But I can still remember, pretty vividly, being smothered by Haldol, back in the mid-1980s. I was only clear-headed first thing each morning, before my first dose. Then it took me what felt like an hour to take a shower. I had been lifting weights, but after the doctor in charge of the hospital started dosing me, I felt like I was dragging, everywhere. He'd only meet me for a few minutes, each weekday. I begged him, over and over, to cut the dose. Eventually, he cut the dose in half, 4 times, and I was still on ... I think 2 mg per day. I've since heard some pretty bad things about "tardive dyskinesia," with which I might have been inflicted, maybe permanently, if the dosage had stayed high. I don't know what your experience has been. I had about 20 years of various doctors trying various meds on me, before putting me on the ones I've had for ... about 25 years. I had to wait until I was over 40, before I experienced clear evidence that my antidepressant was actually doing me good. I think you say you feel sort of 'meh,' now. It wasn't my meds, as better as they are, that pulled me out of about 30 years' clinical depression. It was finally, for the first time in my life, having fun, on a regular, weekly basis, even 2 or 3 times per week. I have since heard that simply having a good time significantly reduces chronic pain. I actually cured a young woman's migraine, one time, by turning off the overhead fluorescent lights, and playing a DVD with the Star Wars Holiday Special (original broadcast, with original ads), synchronized with the RiffTrax comedy commentary. I don't know what you can stand, but even if all you can manage is tiny steps, I hope you can have even a tiny bit of fun, and then a tiny bit more. I understand you have to be careful, but try to consume fun media, while your healing in the bubble wrap. And thanks for letting us know how you're doing.