Chris,
I am deeply sorry for what you are experiencing, for the shadow of earlier
pain, added to the present pain, both deeply felt. Your life and work as an
artist are of great importance to us here, as you know, and I am sure that
we are but a fraction of the people who feel this way. I would love to be
of greater support than what is happening by just writing here, now.
Just this moment, though, the thought, which I realize is insufficient.
Sheila
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Patrick McManus <
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> Dear Chris -best wishes from here hope you keep the energy -there must be
> others in the same position- and the shadow of your brother an old friend
> of
> mine (long gone) once had help from an unlikely source his MP -who actually
> once bailed him out of custody at two in the morning-neat ha!
> Good this list supports you
> Bye Patrick (also on medication :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
> Sent: 25 May 2012 18:46
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: VERY HEAVY: I must admit... for over the past six months
>
> Yes, thanks Chris.
>
> Agreeing with the others: It's going to be hard, but you have the right, &
> I
> hope you can get some response that counts.
>
> Yes, get that letter out as far as you can. And think about finding help in
> the social media: a petition, better if it started in Australia, would I
> think be helpful. One can hope.
>
> Meanwhile, best wishes in getting through to someone...
>
> Doug
> On 2012-05-25, at 10:07 AM, Randolph Healy wrote:
>
> > Dear Chris,
> >
> > thanks for sending this. It's something we need to know, as Lawrence
> said.
> >
> > I'm glad you're going to fight them. It's going to be difficult. They're
> in the wrong, and if they thought they were going to get away with it, it
> looks like they were wrong there too. I really admire your response to this
> appalling treatment. You're doctor is causing you harm. Hippocratic oath my
> arse.
> >
> > Send your letter to anyone who's connected with this. There _are_
> administrators and officials who do have a sense of justice and surely
> someone will take action.
> >
> > best
> >
> > Randolph
> >
> > On 25/05/2012 10:32, Chris Jones wrote:
> >> There has been something which I have been hiding, but now feel I must
> admit to and begin to make more public. It is very sad and difficult. For
> this I apologize.
> >>
> >> Has it now been two years since my younger gay brother committed suicide
> by hanging himself, I cannot remember, date time has become something else.
> >>
> >> It is now two months and more, over six months, that my treating doctor
> has refused to provide treatment for a treatable illness, CFS. He has told
> me that since I am a single man living alone on a boat, I am a drug addict,
> who does not have a wife to control my drug and alcohol intake! I am sick
> because I do not have a wife! I am not sick; I am an addict!
> >>
> >> Needless to say, this is a breach of state and federal
> anti-discrimination law, aside from being blatantly homophobic. Yet for the
> past six months I have been living in severe disabling pain, not able to
> sleep. I oppose suicide but pain prevents me from getting enough sleep to
> hold my sanity so I try to get myself to sleep with the hope that I may not
> wake again; in severe disabling pain, yet again lying still, gripping my
> torso, hoping the pain may end, through the long night hours. I no longer
> wish to live in this sort of pain, although I will refuse the easy way of
> suicide. And I am spending most hours of the daylight lying still, trying
> to
> breathe slowly, hoping the fatigue, pain and severe flu-like illness will
> leave me alone enough that I may do something. I struggle to cook for
> myself
> a meal; let alone write and do some more work on my photo art.
> >>
> >> I am currently composing a letter, which I intend on sending to my
> medical practice, the NSW Minister for Health, the Federal Minister for
> Health, the Prime Minister of Australia and the United Nations in New York
> giving a detailed account.
> >>
> >> Sorry for this heavy post, but must begin to make this situation more
> public and have chosen this list as only the beginning. This is the first
> stage in my fight for life and my right to practice as an artist and poet
> in
> Australia which, aside from a basic human right to live pain free, is also
> my right to practice as an Australian artist. The current political
> situation is denying me this right. Australia is in breach of human rights
> and as such in breach of international law. The fight for life, here, has
> only just started. This is one of my opening shots. I have chosen this list
> to begin to make this situation public, on an international scale. Action
> is
> life. Silence is death. And I will continue to fight, not just for myself
> but all suffering severe illness and discrimination living with severe
> illness such as CFS (aka CFIDS... see wwww.cfids.org.)
> >>
> >> Yours faithfully, Christopher C Jones, BA (Communication) Hons UTS
> >>
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