Posted by Zo on July 4, 2001, at 2:46:10
In reply to no more silly arguments :-) » Zo, posted by Elizabeth on July 3, 2001, at 13:45:03
> Depressing? It sounds so bouncy and cheerful! :-) Is it a novel, biography, ...?Nonfiction. I've written alot, and thought I'd take a stab at describing the Chronic Fatigue life, in all its existential glory. . it's quite a peculiar thing.
> Hmm, so you have CFS too? Is that related to the epilepsy? How do you deal with it?
Seizures sure come under the CFS umbrella, more than people want to admit, or know. . .In my case both nature and "nurture," family dopaminergic vulnerability, probably that genetric glitch discovered on the dopamine receptor site, lots of ADD and genius. . .hard to separate from DDT exposures in childhood, later pesticide exposures which triggered full-scale CFS and other environmental factors.
I deal with it with a *whole* lot of drugs. . .unlike most CFS people, who don't know what they're missing: Dex, Neurontin (fab for FM pain!) Effexor, Valium, and damned Zyprexa, which is helping my writing no end but has made me. . . FAT!
> (Be sure to make the character a really obvious caricature of the real person, with the name, social security number, etc. changed only slightly. < g >)
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> -elizabethLOL. My pdoc has this theory that if I portray ex as the foolish ass he is, he won't be *about* to raise his hand and say, Hey, that jerk she wrote about is me. . .! But with NPDs, you never know! The best advice I've gotten so far is, Give that character a *really* tiny, um, appendage.
Zo
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