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From: Liz.Petry@f1.n3801.z1.fidonet.org (Liz Petry)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Money vs Pain
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Date: 14 Aug 90 13:45:01 GMT
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[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference on Fidonet]

Point taken...but niether one worked..I used an attorney in my first 
case, and even after all of the PT, I was left in worse shape than 
ever...(it took 10 months to settle this one..)
 
Second...it took 7 months to get the current one settled...I just 
got the settlement...I am tired of fighting..I have fought for the 
last 1 1/2 years...I have lost more than money....
 
....I have lost relations with my family, and friends...I even lost 
my best friend because....they couldn't handle it...
 
I am not condoning your opinions...but some of us have bett things 
to do with our time than to be taking drugs...I am heavily involved 
the theatre, I am a part-time grad student, as well as a romance 
writer.  I cannot afford to be on "drugs"...I am exercising, going 
out with my girlfriends for lunch, auditioning for plays..(I just 
made Fiddler on the Roof) and I am not going to "waddle on the pity 
pot" just to satisify others.
 
I was recently called MANIPULATIVE AND THOUGHTLESS....I would prefer 
to be called other names...my other friends don't believe those 2 
words, and if I stayed the same, I would never grow as a person.  If 
people don't change...then I would assume that all recevering 
alcoholics and drug addicts will drink and get back ont he needle..
 
I have better things to do than to fight insurance companies...THIS 
DOESN'T CONSTITUTE ME AS A QUITTER...but I would rather be a 
WINNER...
                   ....especially in LIFE!
 
Elizabeth

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