Comments on: Came home ill http://www.livingwithendometriosis.org/steph/2009/11/came-home-ill/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:48:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: steph http://www.livingwithendometriosis.org/steph/2009/11/came-home-ill/comment-page-1/#comment-4189 steph Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:33:13 +0000 http://www.livingwithendometriosis.org/steph/?p=1897#comment-4189 I am so sorry it has taken so long to get back to you. Please let me know that your gf and you are still around. Tell your gf to get on facebook and twitter and chat to interact real time with people going through the same thing or similar. If you write back, or if your gf writes back, I can give out my chat info. Again I apologise for how long it took to reply to you. I am dealing with hundreds of spam messages daily, and trying to figure out how to lock down my blog without restricting the ability of anyone legit to actually post a comment to any of my blog posts. I am so sorry it has taken so long to get back to you.

Please let me know that your gf and you are still around. Tell your gf to get on facebook and twitter and chat to interact real time with people going through the same thing or similar.

If you write back, or if your gf writes back, I can give out my chat info.

Again I apologise for how long it took to reply to you. I am dealing with hundreds of spam messages daily, and trying to figure out how to lock down my blog without restricting the ability of anyone legit to actually post a comment to any of my blog posts.

]]> By: Matthew Williams http://www.livingwithendometriosis.org/steph/2009/11/came-home-ill/comment-page-1/#comment-2245 Matthew Williams Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:51:45 +0000 http://www.livingwithendometriosis.org/steph/?p=1897#comment-2245 Hello, It is now the day after thanksgiving 2009. My girlfriend and domestic partner was diagnosed with an extreme case of endometriosis in June 2009(this is just when she was diagnosed, she has experienced pain her entire life that we now link with endo). Since being diagnosed she has lost her job and is confined to our bedroom most all the time. Any attempts to go out end up like the entries in your journal. So, on a good day, we may be able to make it to the grocery store for about 1/2 hour before we have to leave. When we do go out the transport char(wheel chair) is necessary. She is now on the most powerful pain drugs the doctors can issue, yet still reaches level 10 pain. The past 2 days have been a level 10 consistently. Last time this occurred she had a 2 week hospital stay that resulted in only a changing of the medications(changed to the ones she currently takes). Yesterday she shared with me that she is considering only drinking enough water to take her pills, with the intention of death by dehydration. She has read about it and it's 'humane' characteristics. She kept mentioning how this would not be considered suicide, and how multiple doctors have written as such. Once reads something that she likes, it doesn't matter my opinion, so I am unable to sway her. Nor am I sure that I want to sway her, being that I believe in the freedom of choice(about the only thing I do believe in). I said that she would need to tell her family first of her decision if she were going to carry out her plan while living with me. She states that she would not, for fear that they would put her in an institution against her will. I didn't think life would present me with such issues by the time I turned 27, but here it is. To be told by doctors that the quality of life will diminish and that there is not too much they can do about it... These are the things that philosophers ponder and debate. I am not a philosopher, yet still I ponder and debate. I just wanted to share with someone, anyone. Endometriosis is a taker of life, a harbinger of pain. Hello,
It is now the day after thanksgiving 2009. My girlfriend and domestic partner was diagnosed with an extreme case of endometriosis in June 2009(this is just when she was diagnosed, she has experienced pain her entire life that we now link with endo). Since being diagnosed she has lost her job and is confined to our bedroom most all the time. Any attempts to go out end up like the entries in your journal. So, on a good day, we may be able to make it to the grocery store for about 1/2 hour before we have to leave. When we do go out the transport char(wheel chair) is necessary. She is now on the most powerful pain drugs the doctors can issue, yet still reaches level 10 pain. The past 2 days have been a level 10 consistently. Last time this occurred she had a 2 week hospital stay that resulted in only a changing of the medications(changed to the ones she currently takes).
Yesterday she shared with me that she is considering only drinking enough water to take her pills, with the intention of death by dehydration. She has read about it and it’s ‘humane’ characteristics. She kept mentioning how this would not be considered suicide, and how multiple doctors have written as such.
Once reads something that she likes, it doesn’t matter my opinion, so I am unable to sway her. Nor am I sure that I want to sway her, being that I believe in the freedom of choice(about the only thing I do believe in).
I said that she would need to tell her family first of her decision if she were going to carry out her plan while living with me.
She states that she would not, for fear that they would put her in an institution against her will.
I didn’t think life would present me with such issues by the time I turned 27, but here it is.
To be told by doctors that the quality of life will diminish and that there is not too much they can do about it…
These are the things that philosophers ponder and debate. I am not a philosopher, yet still I ponder and debate.
I just wanted to share with someone, anyone.
Endometriosis is a taker of life, a harbinger of pain.

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