Dear Queer ~ Medication for Life?

Gayly Giving Advice Straight from the Heart ~ November 2024

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Dear Queer,

I was told I have congestive heart failure. These f**kers gave me medicine to help with edema. I feel like it’s a death sentence to have to take a pill every day of my life, so I don’t take them regularly like I should and now my legs are swollen. I’m nervous because I can’t get the swelling down. I don’t want to go to the hospital because I can’t afford to be out of commission. I can’t see me taking any pill the rest of my life! What else can I try? Something more natural!

Signed,

Stubborn and Southern

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Dear SS,

Yikes, my friend. I’ve got to ask, do you know my medical herstory? Either way, if you do or if you don’t, it doesn’t matter. I’m convinced it’s no coincidence you are asking me, of all people. Rewind 20 years and I was your next-door neighbor on Resistance Lane. Take medication? Never. Did I go so far as to call doctors “f**kers” too? You bet I did. And did those lil’ f**kers end up saving my life? You bet they did.

Once upon a time, I fretted about taking medications, too. I went through all kinds of judgments, both…