We all have different labels attached to us. As we grow older, the more catatagories with names we fall in. Wife, mother, medical oddity, ectera.
I do not tell people when I first am introduced that I am a walking experiment. After I know them awhile and are comfortable, I fill in the details as to why I drag a wheel barrow filled with pills and back up pills where ever I go. I try to the avoid that moment immediately after I tell them that I am a transplant patient. I now expect to see that glimmer of pity in their eyes, followed by their sharp intake of breath as they unconsciously take a step back from me as if I were contagious. That is most often replaced by a look of amazement when they hear the rest of my story.
When I was a camp counselor in my teens at a diabetic camp for children with insulin dependent diabetes, the other young adults discussed how they refused to introduce themselves as being labeled a diabetic. The politically correct terminology was to say,"I am Munkay Girl, and I have diabetes." This was so you would not be identified as a diabetic, but a person first, who happens to have a disease. Funny, never a once when the paramedic were called to revive my unconscious form did I bother to introduce myself in that correct way. I was lucky if I could say the word diabetes. That label never bothered me. It was part of me.
But now I am looking for a more user friendly name for myself. I am working on compiling a list. Let me know what you think.
Instead of transplant patient, I am now to be addressed by any of the following:
transient cell receptor
CM (cell munkay)
tranny planny (sounds kinda gay)
the symbol similar to what Prince called himself, but shaped more like a pancreas
incubation unit
experimental organ munkay
cell relocation factant
Miz Munkay (if your nasty)
transient test primate
cooked in a lab
the walking dead (hubbies name, my cells came from a cadaver donor)
tissue relocation unit
Please feel free to add to my list under the comments area. Any names containing the words perfect, extordinary, and wonder, will receive my immediate approval. All referances to being a lab rat will be automaticly rejected.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
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7 comments:
How about The Eight Million Dollor Frankin-Monkey Bomb? One part 8 million dollor man, one part Frankinstien, one part monkey, all bomb? xxx-oooo Josh
Why not Madonna now that she is going by the name of Ester?
Patent rain splatt (uses all the letter in transplant patient-yes, I have a lot of time on my hands)
Wonder munkay
Hey- so far I'm liking them all. I'm working on a nice cape that I can hid my tail under to downplay the primate thing when I use wonder munkay. Ester the rain-platt wonder munkay bomb?
Special prograf containment unit (SPCU for short)
Antirejection test force
Medical Munkay Miricle
Mable Jeanne, I'm diggin your names. Makes me wanna go all "Men in Black" and dress in my black munkay suit and carry my pills in a brief case. Maybe carry my glucomiter (Little blood suger testing devise) to flash your memory.
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