I ask because I’ve just been “diagnosed” with a chronic illness (YMMV. Second opinions, yay! 🙄), and I am not kidding when I say that the public healthcare system where I am IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER MY LIFE…
Monthly treatments, for the rest of my life (not gonna happen), blood tests every month, MRIs every 3 months, specialist appointments every 4-6, “compulsory” flu and coof injections, etc, etc, etc…
Some of that I may put up with (if it helps). Some I will not.
But I just wonder… Can they actually force me?? This isn’t America, I know (it’s Aus. Aus is fucked.), but… Surely it’s my choice, right, unless they can prove I’m “not of sound mind”..? Surely..?!?
More scared of losing my freedoms than the fucking disease, tbh. By a long shot…
Hey man, just wanted to say cheers for all your help and advice (again). It’s just hit me really hard, just now (all of this. I’ll just blame the meds, though, for making me “emotional”), and my sense of humour is… Temporarily depleted.
I guess I’ll come back at this when I’ve recovered a bit more from “your whole life has changed, now, mwahaha” hell week, but yeah, I need to… Have a think about what exactly I’m gonna do from here, now, I think, lol… 😑
Thanks again.
Also, I just found out that my state has some of the highest rates of [rare disease] in the entire fucking world…
That really makes me angry, because maybe if I just… Didn’t move back to this place, I might not have developed this… 😞
Anyway, too late now, I suppose…
I didn’t know. Of course I didn’t know…