ON M.E. SOAPBOX
Warning. I like a good chance to swear. A lot. It makes me feel better, so stand back…I need to feel better… 
After innocently popping into the medicine hut/surgery to get a repeat prescription signed, I am faced with a serious transport & independence issue and bloody hell, I don’t need the stress!
It looks like Doctor X is out to get me not my M. flippin’ E.! This mass produced, standard issue, devoid of personality, Matrix cloned impostor, posing as an educated almost human GP, at least to the likes of all of us of obviously far lesser intelligence, has told me I have to surrender my driving license as I have a neurological condition (yes, I’m off my f*cking rocker now you’ve stirred up me M.E. neurons - you total ignoramus!) This is incredible, as Dr. X then proceeded to deny M.E., but chose to hone in on one of its most common symptoms! Seizure activity. What the?
This is just typical of their pre-programmed tiny minds… deny, humiliate, deny, it’s what they loooove to download. Unless of course there’s a bonus in it for over, over-prescribing SSRI’s (Prozac & family) or their other favourite, when it’s not tranquilising our undisciplined children with Ritalin, those f*cking marvelous Cholesterol treatments, never a cure, always a “treatment” you have to take for life - you’re a gonna if you don’t, so we all gobble them down like lolly lovin’ robots hoping we’ll see tomorrow!
All nice little earners and worth the Golfing resort holidays at the boring Pharmaceutical “Seminars” they so frequently attend… I know this as I worked in a drug dispensary in the Veterinary trade. Exact same thing - keep those boosters up to Fido and give him a $150 course of 5 cent antibiotics anyway no matter what, or how about a nice course of Prednisone as well as the most expensive prescription diet pet tucker on the planet…if you love Fido, you’ll do it! Oh, yes, I know how this works… Only Dr.X was not smart enough to become a Veterinary Surgeon, but just smart enough enough to treat patients like frightened cattle! Well, this ol’ cow is going to kick you where it hurts…
I have very occasional NOCTURNAL TLE (Temporal lobe epilepsy) - not the violent looking grand mall seizures more commonly known. This is controlled by Lamictol just fine and only happened in the sleep state with me. I checked this out with Qld Transport twice, who say I am fine to drive, as I was certified by my Neurologist as safe, who also had to inform them. I am endorsement free and I’ve never had a ticket in my life. I mean, come on, I am not asleep when I’m driving am I? Or perhaps it’s all a dream?!
As we only have one 7klm long stretch of bitumen where you could really burn rubber if you were not a conscientious careful driver anyway, I hardly think I’m of hoon potential! I’m hardly Micheal Schumaker! Or trying out for Top Gear am I? Those days are long gone, sadly. I’ve been a good driver for over 26 years. Once a week, when I toodle off to the shop or the post office, err, I mean postal agency as I’m always being corrected, in my little hairdryer-for-an-engine car, I AM the bloody rush hour around here as there is so little traffic. I depend on my car and not having one will be the end of me, I’m isolated enough and won’t be able to help anyone out again. Give me strength…
Pending a new MRI/SPECT, that will determine if it’s time to quit my cute little 4×4 carbon emission maker and get a solar powered/windmill/electric assisted tricycle complete with dog carrier, wet weather tent and a blingy pink sparkly helmet or not…just what a person with M.E. needing a hip replacement and with chronic knee arthritis needs - pedal power! It never rains but it bloody well pours…
One thing’s for sure. If I do get banned after the next brain detector test, I will be aiming my mobility scooter at a certain GP. I might even get a horse called Trigger - one with very big teeth and have to take him along to future humiliation appointments with me, if I can afford the prescription carrots the Vet will force me to put him on that is!
OK, enough already…I feel better now. 
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Obviously, you need to educate Dr X with epilepsy… (I wish yo could charge him like those seminars as professional people have to attend as Continuous Professional Development.)
(((Hugs)))
Thanx 4 ur comment here Rachel
Unfortunately teaching an old dog new tricks isn’t easy! CPD is only as smart as the educators…if they get in a mindset, that’s it until proven otherwise. They are like sheep - scared to leave the flock in case of professional ridicule. Must bugger up the Golfing rounds! We desperatley need decent research into M.E./CFS and all the other odd invisible diseases. They did the exact same thing with MS and now that is totaly accepted and the patients receive a lot more respect. Dr. X, being a GP is probably pretty much operating at his full intellectual capacity - his RAM is full!
BB. Z. (((HUGZ BACK!)))