Rusty Bertrand on Nostr: #OTD a doctor gave me this poem to cheer me up. I waited 4 years to be seen by this ...

#OTD a doctor gave me this poem to cheer me up. I waited 4 years to be seen by this specialist.

Gekk ég einn saman
Gekk villur vega
auðugur þóttumist
er ég annan fann
maður er manns gaman.

A very rough translation :

Together I walked alone
Walked ways of error
Wealthy pretended once another I found
A person is a person's joy

Poetic witchcraft by gaslight.
(My given name, #cult name was Joy)

I was denied entry to the pain clinic because I believed I had messed up my C4 at work, they wanted me to accept that it was fibromyalgia (hysteria). 2 years later, "Oh, look, your C4 is bulging. Do you feel any pain?" 🙄