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Name: Cheryl Lindsay
Email: scourts@usa.net
Date: 08 Mar 2000
Time: 19:49:01

Story

More and more I'm feeling like a minority. Maybe that's not the right word, but I will explain. Here lately I find I spend more and more time alone -- not because I want it that way but because there is nowhere I seem to fit in. Does that mean I am a misfit?

I'm afraid to go anywhere alone and I seem to hurt all the time. My own family doesn't want me around (I hurt too much). That is, until they need me.

I found a medication that helps the pain. I was told don't take it. You might get hooked on it. So I didn't and, for about a week, I just thought about it and somebody with a Ph.D. asked me how was I feeling, how did the meds work?

I said, "I don't know -- my family told me not to take them."

He said, "And where did they get their Ph.D.'s at."

So, now I ask you -- which would you do? Me, I took the meds. If I have a choice to be a drug addict or in pain all the time, I'll pick the addict every time. If that makes me an outcast, then so be it. I'm home alone anyway.

Signed open for suggestions
at scourts@usa.net

Plus, after reading some of your postings, I feel better, like I'm not alone in this mess. Besides, I won't live long enough to get hooked -- maybe that's what my doctor was trying to say. They just don't want to hear it. Me, I don't mind a bit -- any relief is better than none. Betty, I miss you, too. Cheryl

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