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Susan W. - Jul 12, 2005 4:22:16 pm PDT #363 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Susan's raising a valley girl!

Either that, or she's thinking, "Why do we cheer for the Mariners? They've been losing all my life."


askye - Jul 12, 2005 4:29:32 pm PDT #364 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

I re wrote my email to the editorial bitch. I figured, I might as well do some research and get more information. Plus I forgot to put in the part where Sexton's from here. His parents live here, this is home town and he's been here in the hospital here.

This is the new version:

Dear Ms. Hill,

I'm very confused by your recently editorial regarding Wyatt Sexton because the editorial was poorly written and researched I would like some clarification.

First -- in your editorial you said "A few weeks ago, I wrote that it would be better if Sexton had a drug problem rather than an incurable, but treatable mental condition, such as bipolar disorder."

I was floored to read this. Completely struck dumb and then irate.

Exactly how would it be better? Are you saying that an incurable drug addiction (because there is no cure for drug addiction) is better than an illness that is treatable? I have bipolar disorder, I'm on medication and I know that as long as I take my medication I will be stable. If, on the off chance, my medication doesn't work correctly I can go to the doctor and adjust my medication. There is no temptation to face daily, no desire to get high, no craving, no addiction. If this is your position -- that addiction is preferable to a treatable condition -- do you feel that way about all treatable but incurable conditions? If Wyatt Sexton were diagnosis with Lupus or MS or diabetes would you say, also, that he would be better off a drug addict?

Or did you mean that there is less of a stigma attached to drug addiction? That the general public is more likely to understand and react sympathetically to addiction than it is towards mental illness? Because if that is the case then you are perpetuating the stigma.

I also take offense at your implication that maybe there is something more than Lyme Disease going on with Sexton, that maybe his family is using the excuse to hide something like drug addiction.

You aren’t a doctor and neither am I but using www.google. It only took me a few minutes to find The American Lyme Disease Foundation’s website at: [link] They have an informative and easy to read website that provides the following information about Lyme Disease.

Regarding the late stages of the disease:

Arthritis (pain/swelling) of one or two large joints Disabling neurological disorders (disorientation; confusion; dizziness; short-term memory loss; inability to concentrate, finish sentences or follow conversations; mental "fog") Numbness in arms/hands or legs/feet

The website also says: If early symptoms are undetected or ignored, you may develop more severe symptoms weeks, months or perhaps years after you were infected. “

Regarding treatment and a cure (bold face mine)

Early treatment of LD (within the first few weeks after initial infection) is straightforward and almost always results in a full cure. Treatment begun after the first three weeks will also likely provide a cure, but the cure rate decreases the longer treatment is delayed.

According to this website there is a chance that Wyatt Sexton’s Lyme Disease can be treated but not cured. If this is the case do you still think he would be better off addicted to drugs?

Your closing paragraphs again highlight your lack of research for this editorial.

You said “The smartest thing might be for Sexton to never come back to Tallahassee. It’s not like he built some great legacy at FSU.”

Tallahassee is Wyatt Sexton’s home and he’s been here in the hospital. Wyatt graduated from high school here, his father is an assistant football coach at FSU. He won’t be kicked to the curb.

Even if he wasn’t a home town boy and had an incurable, yet treatable mental illness he'd be treated with compassion and understanding. Something you seem to know little about.


brenda m - Jul 12, 2005 4:33:33 pm PDT #365 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

That's great, askye. But this bit "because the editorial was poorly written and researched" I think I'd take out or at least move it to the end. Make your case first (which you do very well) or I think some people would hit that line and think 'crackpot'.

But go you! That was a purely appalling editorial and I'm glad you're stepping up.


SailAweigh - Jul 12, 2005 4:36:28 pm PDT #366 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

applauds

What brenda said, askye. Excellent rebuttal.


sj - Jul 12, 2005 4:38:13 pm PDT #367 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Great letter, askye, but I think you should take out the part that brenda quoted. You make that point quite well with evidence without needing to state it explicitly.

Dave is getting aggravated because I insist on booing A-Rod despite the fact that he is part of the team we are cheering for tonight.


billytea - Jul 12, 2005 4:39:20 pm PDT #368 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I just made a room reservation for Dragon*Con. Eep. First con.

I had a blast at DragonCon last year. Be sure to take a camera!


vw bug - Jul 12, 2005 4:40:17 pm PDT #369 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

Oh, how I suck. Let me count the ways... The latest? Emily thinks she's coming home to one of her favorite dinners. I, unfortuantely, have decided that the chili, the key ingredient in chili-baked potatoes, is no longer any good. So, I've ordered pizza as I am too exhausted to think about making anything else for dinner.

So, apparently it's just a night of suckitude. If you've ever thought I suck for any reason at all, this would be a good time to share it. Seems it's in the air tonight.


askye - Jul 12, 2005 4:40:18 pm PDT #370 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

I'm going to take out the line Brenda suggested. I still have

Your closing paragraphs again highlight your lack of research for this editorial.

Which is probably enough.


vw bug - Jul 12, 2005 4:40:50 pm PDT #371 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

Oh, askye, that's a wonderful letter. Go you!


JZ - Jul 12, 2005 4:43:19 pm PDT #372 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Great letter, askye. One typo I noticed (and I know getting line-edits when you just want a beta can be a sore spot for some folks, but I can just tell that this cow you're responding to is exactly the sort of person to pounce on a typo, roll her eyes forever, and feel smugly justified in ignoring your letter. She's just that kind of a cow.): Last sentence of the fourth paragraph (the first really long one), "diagnosis" should be "diagnosed."

Other than those two letters at the end of that one word, smart and articulate and beautifully angry and focused. I hope she reads your letter and is thoroughly ashamed of herself.

Also, all kinds of -ma to your mom and aunt, and you and your grandma, and Asshat Uncle can go suck an egg.