toonlet: getting better is weird

getting better is weird

by justlikehoney

i guess i'm getting better. it's hard to know how to feel.
heather 2010 - too skinny: this can't be happening. oh god. i'm only 29.
at first it was all relief. they'd said i only had 4-6 months...
heather 2010 - too skinny: i'm going to fight and beat this!
we finally knew what was wrong. i was so thin, losing hair, scared, but i just said...
heather 2010 - jubilant: but, i don't know. the way i was treated...
and it worked! my doctor was so happy for the reprieve that we all cried when i'd gained weight, when i could eat again.
heather short hair - summer mourning: i used to be a runner and i can't get out of bed. i'm not here looking for painkillers. i want to figure out what's wrong.
heather short hair - summer mothers day: what does it matter if i was traumatized as a child? no, i don't have a drug problem. i don't even drink. makes the pain worse.
heather short hair - summer nl: what's making me depressed is i keep getting worse physically. can't you just run a blood test? don't you believe me?
heather short hair - summer mothers day: i didn't even ask you for painkillers!
it was like because i was a young woman in pain...
heather short hair - normal: i want you to know from the start i don't want painkillers. not that you'd, um, jump to that conclusion, but, um, you know...
...they assumed i was a criminal, no matter what i said.
heather 2010 - normal: advanced into rickets by the time i was diagnosed.
it turns out a routine physical would have turned up the problem: malnutrition from my weird guts.
that horrible face pain was because my sinus bones were starting to, well, decay.
heather 2010 - normal: it was so easily fixable! i lost 2 years for no good reason!
heather 2010 - normal: all of them acted like they were on to me...
i was at the mayo clinic! in front of so many geniuses!
heather 2010 - normal: ...and i was dying! i was suffering because i was dying!
heather 2010 - normal: but i have this awful insight now. this fear. this... experience.
i'm glad to be alive!
heather 2010 - questioning: how can i make a reader understand when i don't?
i don't know how to write about it.
heather 2010 - jubilant: what a relief! i'm so happy!
and it's not exactly polite dinner conversation to say anything but...
heather 2010 - lynda barry -1 : i always said i should be the lynda barry of toonlet...
i can't even make my internet cartoons a reasonable length!

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Re: getting better is weirdby craig
metal craig - dumbstruck: WOW. JUST WOW.
metal craig - chill happy: BUT I'M GLAD TO HEAR YOU HAVE A PROPER DIAGNOSIS!

Re: getting better is weirdby Cuervolinda
CL_Happy - A: FUCKING AWESOME! THANK YOU FOR YOUR STORY!
CL_Sad - Sideways talking: I HAD A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE IN 1992. MY DOC TOLD ME IT WAS NERVES FOR A YEAR.
CL_Question - Angry smirk: IT WASN'T UNTIL I ENDED UP IN ICU WITH GANGRENE IN MY INTESTINE THEY BELIEVED ME.
CL_Question - Perplexed: FOR SOME REASON, BEING A WOMAN EQUALS HYSTERICAL SYMPTOMS TO SOME DOCTORS.

CL_Happy - A: FUCKING AWESOME! THANK YOU FOR YOUR STORY!
CL_Sad - Sideways talking: I HAD A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE IN 1992. MY DOC TOLD ME IT WAS NERVES FOR A YEAR.
CL_Question - Angry smirk: IT WASN'T UNTIL I ENDED UP IN ICU WITH GANGRENE IN MY INTESTINE THEY BELIEVED ME.
CL_Question - Perplexed: FOR SOME REASON, BEING A WOMAN EQUALS HYSTERICAL SYMPTOMS TO SOME DOCTORS.

Re: getting better is weirdby tixrus

Mom - bad-ouch: INDEED, WHEN YOU'RE A WOMAN OF BREEDING AGE, IF IT'S NOT CONNECTED TO BABYMAKING
Mom - bad-ouch: OR AS COMMON AS DIRT, IT'S OBVIOUSLY IN YOUR HEAD AND YOU NEED PROZAC AND OXYCONTIN.
Mom - normal: LUCKY FOR ME, WHAT I CAME DOWN WITH LAST YEAR WAS COMMON AS DIRT AND ALSO "AGE-APPROPRIATE" SO THEY HACKED IT OUT STRAIGHT AWAY.
Mom - normal: THIS TOON SHOULD GO UP IN EVERY DOCTOR'S OFFICE!!!

Re: getting better is weirdby mrfincham
B avg - normal: CONGRATS ON THE PROPER DIAGNOSIS. IT'S A SHAME YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE MADE ASSUMPTIONS.

B avg - normal: CONGRATS ON THE PROPER DIAGNOSIS. IT'S A SHAME YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE MADE ASSUMPTIONS.

getting better is weird

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