Poem

[ellepee]

Am I alone,

So often these days I feel as if I'm on my own.

Something with my body is not right,

For over two years now I've been putting up a fight.

I go from doctor to doctor who can't figure out what is wrong with me,

I sometimes wonder who gave them a degree?

I endure test after test,

They try and treat me as if I were depressed.

Doctors have found many things wrong,

But in their textbook cases these results just don't belong.

I failed my tilt table test,

And so many of the rest?

I've had an abnormal muscle biopsy, spinal tap, and lesions in the brain,

But these things no doctor can explain.

I've been to grad school and am an educated person,

Yet these doctors pay not attention when my symptoms worsen.

Among so many other symptoms, I'm always nauseous and dizzy,

Yet my case takes up too much time and doctors say they are too busy.

In my condition I don?t know how I could ever work,

But I keep receiving SS denial letters from those jerks.

I?m bored out of my mind,

I watch enough TV and movies for all mankind.

I love this website that has helped me find people whom I can relate to,

And for that I say thanks to you!

I'm not giving up that me and these others with POTS will be cured,

We deserve it after all we have endured.

The day will come for that I am sure,

With today's technology there has just got to be a cure!

[Guest tearose]

That was so well written...thank you.

I feel it linger and I will read it again...

I hear you and understand well.

thank you, tearose

[kmpower]

Touching and true.

Thank you for sharing it with us.

[ckteach]

Well written and I agree with all you said....it's hard to keep plodding through life just waiting for a cure. Your poem is a great way of expressing this frustration. We're all in this together.

[MomtoGiuliana]

Very well said. Thanks for sharing your work, and your frustrations!

Katherine

[deucykub]

Hi, Elle:

Beautifully stated. Thank you for sharing that with us.

I hope that you feel better soon and that your frustration will start to wane.

It is interesting that if a doctor doesn't understand something, it is the patient who is considered the idiot.

Technology will catch up soon - I'd bet within the next 10 years but probably sooner! Medical researchers are learning so much about unseen illnesses, meaning those that chemically induced, like dysautonomia.

I have great hope for a better future! Hang in there.

Deucykub