I have a friend here in finland who has CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) & has
battled for years with finnish healthcare to get them to acknowledge her
condition, without success. I'm trying to help her out with that through my
father, who keeps an eye on the health business as part of his job. I wish
you speedy relief Chris.
KS
On 27/01/07, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 09:26 +1100, Alison Croggon wrote:
>
> > All very clunkily put, I fear. I'm very interested in Chris' notion
> > that this also ties to homophobia.
>
> Alison, I will reply in more detail later. Unfortunately, at the moment,
> I am in far too much chronic pain to respond and which could be quite
> easily solved if the NSW health bureaucracy were to allow me access to
> adequate pain relief such as mscontin, oxycontin, morphine or methadone.
> However, the NSW health bureaucracy will only grant this when when I am
> in the final weeks of my life and even this I cannot be sure of and
> despite the fact that they are in breach of United Nation's charters to
> which the Australian government is a signatory. People in chronic pain
> are in no position to take the government to the world court. Hopefully
> the few Di-Gesics I am allowed for the next month or so combined with
> Nuraphen Plus will provide enough of a window to take possible further
> action. I however fear that I will spend this opportunity revising my
> current novel, adding some more verse to the Bar-B-Q and writing up some
> more poetics theory. But then, this is life in Australia. I regret not
> taking the opportunities I have been offered to migrate to the UK or the
> USA where I would be treated with more humanity.
>
> best wishes
>
> Chris Jones.
>
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