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 :-)
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
Sent: 25 May 2012 18:46
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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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