My initial thoughts were to base the program around my music and the music of some pretty talented cats I call friends. However, I found myself attending a support group meeting a fortnight ago that somewhat changed the general direction of what I had foreseen, if only in my minds eye.
I have written a fair bit about Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. A lot of it no one has read for various reasons. With the exception of course, of my professor Antoni Jach who has very generously issued me with a month extension on my exegesis– I’m inclined to believe, partly for this very reason. (Oh and I have just been reprimanded– With the exception, also, of my Novel Writing class @ RMIT)–
PCOS swallows you whole. Leaves you with little but a running narrative from everyone else who has no idea what they’re talking about.
The majority of my experience with this particular condition has been solitary. Prior to joining the support group I’d not met a single soul who understood what I was talking about when I worked up the courage to explain myself and “my condition.”
I was living in Tokyo when my father sent me the following link: www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1433225.htm
It would be 2 years before I managed to get my hands on a copy of the interview from the ABC AV archives in the RMIT Library.
Juli Stopp is a pretty cool chick and then it hit me like a tonne of bricks during this PCOS support group meeting that perhaps what I needed to talk about on the radio show was not so much myself or my own ego but about something that consumes us all. Perhaps rather than sitting in a room surrounded by women trying to conceive I should get off my own ass and conceive something much less egotistical. That’s where Juli comes in.
Tracking her down was no easy feat. Through a series of searches and a couple of phone calls I made some contacts who made some other contacts, then– I had a text message sitting in my mobile phone 48 hours later from none other than Ms. Stopp.
My fear of phones has often seen me miss out on various opportunities as I struggle to work up the courage to dial a number. Though, thats another story. What eventuated from this phone call last week was a conversation that lasted well over an hour. A conversation I’m not sure I’ve ever actually had. A simpatico. Finally.
The following link is somewhat unrelated in subject matter, though for me, the point is clear. We run out of steam. We chose everyday whether we’re interested in riding it out and throwing it all in. Managing any kind of illness is a full time job. I suppose what I’m getting at is that phone conversation last week and possibly the opportunity to re-invent the Medical Wheel– insofar– as sexing up a long heralded ugly beast– is, from my vantage point, a trajectory worth surviving. A story worth telling. A bloody good read.
So tune in: http://www.abc.net.au/newcastle/
Friday July 4th 0800-1100hrs EST
And this from Finn: www.health-science-spirit.com/iodine.html
