What Do I Need To Do To Be Heard?

by Sean - 8 February 2009

I’m running out of voice. I’ve been saying the same thing for so long, I fear people think I’m a broken record. I fear I’ve dulled the impact of my own anguish by trying to raise a reaction from people. Not you, the reader who is transabled, because you know. But the others. The doctors, the surgeons, the psychiatrists, all the medical people who have vowed to help people. I don’t feel heard. What will it take for people to notice me?

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My Own Visit To The GP

by Sean - 4 February 2009

I went to my GP mostly to renew a prescription of sleeping pills. He’d given me sleeping pills last July, and the 30 day’s worth lasted 7+ months, so that’s not too bad. I use them only when I really need them, when I’m going through a patch of a lot of nightmares, and I tend to use them on weekends only, because they leave me groggy for the day. If I take half, then they don’t knock me out enough to kill the nightmares.

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