Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Time to Write; Please Share.

1982 Debbie in Dance Costume


June 23, 2015
The following writing is done by Deborah K. Moss.  I am still perturbed that my original writing, which should come under fine art law, has been thieved for over decade of my life.
I am self publishing as a means for everyone to be inspired, not just the select few who have discovered a way to profit off of well written, edited, and honest writing.  They have also profited off other people's biographical misery. 
I shouldn't need to get into the fact that people have recorded my voice and exploited me in that way, as well.  I would like them prosecuted, and I don't mind owning up to a little performance art.  I accept reality tv for its value.  I am waiting for someone to attempt to blackmail me with images from surviving a stay at a psychiatric hospital, when I live beneath the poverty line. 
               Yep, I had shriveled up boobs.  Yep, I'm actually a female.  Yep, that is indeed facial hair.  There     is such a thing as medical neglect.  Yep, that's me crying in anguish and surrendering to God.  I                can't recite the Lord's Prayer correctly.   Yep, I said a lot of strange stuff.  I actually remember                how my mind was working - over-time.  No one comes.  You just wait for the health insurance to           time out.  I did improve my pirouette during my stay.
Perhaps soon, I'll make enough money to need to pay taxes.  I researched it earlier in the year.  I need to make about $13,000.  I have never made that much in a year before.  It's hard to be motivated when others have made much more off of my autobiographical writing.

Old e-mail addresses:  iconodule, d2k, sugarkick.
Servers:  Yahoo, Hotmail, Geocities.


Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Yesterday, I dug a grave for Ado.  This feels like the longest, most difficult transition period in my life.  Physical pain lasting months makes it hard to forget the events of the past few years.  I depend upon my memory to survive.
I have finally remembered some of the strange, delightful, or even mundane moments in time that had been buried for years.  These are seen in retrospect with a mature perspective.  I am not the same young, frazzled, nervous girl.
Watching Dr. Forever (and a day) on tv has been therapeutic.  My mind remembers more than it registered at the time that I was working at Bewley's.

Monday, June 15, 2015
So, today a Lutheran told me that I look 12 years old.
No response.
So, my sad life moves forward (after that exchange).  I am looking healthier today, but I am having more stinging urination.  Healing is a lengthy process.  This is the kind of crime against me I could have never imagined suffering.  You don't forget what another human has done to you with this sort of slow, painful recovery.
So, I believe she said that there are 7,000 Lutherans in Mississippi?  I was born into this minority, especially when you pair it with Amish ancestry.  I would suggest a medical exchange between my relatives and I, but I am not sure if it would be used against all of us or not.  It seems pointless with all that non-relatives have already probably put together.  I am not sure any of us have a chance at a modern, humane, endocrinological perspective.  Research seems to have existed for over a century, but it is most likely being used by mad-scientists, not healers.  Besides, medical conglomerates seem to have begun their new version of tracking pre-existing conditions.  I studied a bit of database programming, so I understand how easy it is to tag people as related.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
I am trying to figure out the best way to drop some names instead of hints.

So, the scenario I am playing with now is the Female-Female Doctor(or any random family doctor of Mississippi, perhaps the Indian American I needed to inform which side of my chest my heart was on in front of a Sherriff's Deputy) giving a demonstrative teach to 13 year-old girls on what a proper breast exam is as opposed to molestation.  The doctor seems the expert at both.

This guilty consciousness stuff has got to end for all of the young women out there.  I don't know what to do about the women older than me.  Our society has to evolve.  Can we just make things transparent?  Systemized abuse, who does it serve? 
Guilt belongs with the guilty party, grrlz.

Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Have you ever looked out the back window and seen the beautiful tree leaves sway slowly in the heat of a new summer?  Yesterday, I marveled at the hint of golden light kissing the  surface of a window sill.  Beyond the pane, I could see the sky glowing in golden sepia.  I took a breath in, and I smiled the smallest smile.  Despite all of the harm being done by people in this world, in this land, to each other, to society, decaying our culture, isolating the thoughtful and naive, this place is still one of the most beautiful and romantic moments in time.  My mind might process and store the memories of trauma and abuse in triplicate, but there is still room for a childlike wonderment.  I can delight in a flower or the smell of the world after a warm rain.
Going back in time, around 2011, before I was kidnapped by a Sheriff's Deputy (still questioning his identity due to lack of professionalism .  .  . weird thing to do to a U.S. Citizen) and held hostage at a psychiatric hospital, before I had ever been to a psychiatrist, I was given a "wishbone pelvic break" at a women's center that depends on grant money.  "Tag; you're it!" comes to mind.  This is barbaric treatment, and at my size I am always an easy target for physical harm.
When I was underweight, living at the psychiatric hospital, I could feel the separation in what should still be a fused pelvis in a woman who has never delivered a baby.  With no flesh and just skin, my fingers could go between the broken, over-lapping bones.  The asymmetry was obvious.  One side no longer fused, but normal.  The other side with the tip on the part that should be fused double over.  Well, at least, "the wish" still belongs to me as I carry all of the pieces on my pelvis within me.
I had pain following that pelvic exam for about 5 days.  I had always had pain following pelvic exams for approximately 3 days.  The doctor palpitated my ovaries, which is something done to women with a history of overgrown ovarian cysts or to check ovulation.  I only needed a pap-smear in the first place because of one sexual assault that occurred when I was 24.  (I was supposed to be unconscious.  The man rather not be known as a rapist or a murderer.  We cryptically communicated the truth to each other.  I prefer to say I lost my virginity to a cardboard applicator for a tampon than a rapist.)  I believed in preventative care.
We all have to enter that trusting frame of mind in order to receive medical care.  We were trained as children to trust the doctor and the nurse so that we may be made better.  We are not to be defensive.  I trusted and was abused.  So, they fed their sadism and got paid for it.
I might live in Mississippi, the land of eloquent writers, yet known for ridiculous ignorance, but my thoughts have lead me to the conclusion that this abuse at medical centers is systemic and operates with cult-like rules with an organized crime hierarchy across this nation.  I honestly thought I was to receive second opinions with each new female doctors I went to see.
The monopoly radiological group might be a good source for a collection of images of small frame women's wishbone pelvic breaks, as well as other visual evidence of abuse. 
If I was not well written, this would be insignificant, as I am one of many who are undervalued and not heard.
I am not looking for sympathy.  I don't like to be coddled. 
hush now don't say a word
mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird


©D. Moss


April 26, 2011
December 25, 2011
January 21, 2012

Cheerleader, Age 11


Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Our Woman in the H'burg



I cancelled my health insurance.  My mother and father have paid it for over a decade.  We all wanted me to have the best chance possible to be healthy and happy.  Health insurance, in theory, should have gotten me the best medical care available locally.  This is not what has transpired.
Never having been to a psychiatrist before, I was held hostage the full 3 weeks covered for psychiatric hospitalization at the end of 2012, surviving something akin to a thyroid storm.  Of course, it's more complicated than that.  I was in survival mode without the right to a ponytail holder, a proper toothbrush, or an ink pen.  They even did the Japanese-prisoner-of-war technique of pretending to check on me every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, 3 weeks straight making sure bright fluorescent lights shone into the room.  I wasn't going to sleep, regardless, in this stressful situation.  The good nurses were mostly glorified security.  And, I have an end of life colon that works well enough; it tries not to have excrement the diameter of a Number 2 pencil. I think I know why I had an appendix.
On Halloween 2014, I went nervously to have a CT of a pelvic mass I feel through my skin.  I was injected with what I was told to be dye.  I ended up with what I am assuming to be blood poisoning.
This is just part of my story. 

The Death Machine of Healthcare rolls on in Mississippi . . .
I can close my eyes and see all of the cogs and wheels made up mostly of people and coaxial cable, databases, apps, wireless, too
sharing data, sharing targets, sharing victims
Who does the choosing?
Broken pelvis
Swollen glands
Who is in charge
Nobody knows who is?
They know my face and my name before I enter the building
4'11" on a good day, I'm not one of your children.
 
Nope, I'm not dead, again.  
I'm tired, and I turn 40 this year.
I will keep trying to regiment my life with running, yoga, and healthy eating.  I really do try.




©2015 D. Moss

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Northern Mississippi through a Child's Eyes

1978, Picking Cotton near the farm my father grew-up on
1983, this is a photo I took of Grandmother Moss when I was 8 years-old.
1983, Grandmother Moss, Christmas

About

Southern Gothic is a genre of American literature.
It is best explained on this page owned by Oprah:
http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Southern-Gothic-Distinguising-Features/1

I am using the term as an adjective.

To learn more about yoga, the following websites are a good starting point:

Yoga Journal

Yoga International

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Healing through Communication in the Twenty-First Century

I have never known I could have the power to enact any sort of change in the world, and I am fascinated by the fact that it might actually be possible to do one little thing and see a ripple effect in real life.

My focus, as a yogini particularly, is to evolve, to change myself.

I write; I take pictures; I draw: I bake.
I post stuff online. I get it out of my head. And, I heal.

Monday, September 22, 2014

with a roach on top


cafeteria fruit cocktail with a roach on top
postcard


Canned Fruit Cocktail:  Normally edible - I hadn't eaten this sort of thing in years.  I prefer to butcher a fresh pineapple.

The saddest thing was parts-is-parts-breaded-and-fried.  Chickens (I assume) should not live to die and be turned into this clusterf*ck of a meat product.
I have been a pescatarian since I was 27, for over a decade.  Before that, I was a strict, dairy-free vegetarian for a decade.  I think people should have a choice in their diets, but I do not think anyone should eat the low grade food described above.

Every mealtime, in December 2012 at Alliance Health Center, I looked forward to see what was hiding beneath the lid of the gigantic food tray labeled with my name.  For some reason these food trays are over 2 foot wide, making it an exercise in strength training for the smallest version of me to carry to my room.  The only joy came twice during my stay:  banana pudding.  There were real bananas!  
I craved avocados for weeks.  I fantasized eating avocado sushi.  I just wanted simple, recognizable food.

The cockroach just happened to be inside a closed-lid food tray, the main meal after my mother attempted to explain her version of my diet to the kitchen and the dietician met with me without a notepad to take notes.  Coincidence?  Sure, why not?  It's the South; roaches are part of life.
Curiously, every single tray is marked with a slip of paper with your name and a whole long list of optional diets that I assume the kitchen offers to someone?  I'm sure they honor a diabetic diet, at least.

Regular
Diabetic
Cardiac
Vegetarian
Dairy-Free


Anyway, anyone else have a childhood into adulthood dislike of jello?