Chris, what about a hospice? They are famously
generous with pain meds.
I'm so sorry that you have to go through this agony,
unecessarily. Here at least I know of one methadone
clinic for people in constant pain. A friend goes
there and is really helped by that medication. (People
don't realize that methadone does more than help
heroin addicts.)
Hang in there,
Candice
"I'm holding out for that teenage feeling"
(Neko Case)
--- 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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