TV show Bones uses fibro as an excuse for murder
Bones is one of my favorite TV shows; I'll just be glad when fibromyalgia is replaced as the whipping post by some other new and little known about disease. Unfortunately for the new disease, that WILL happen!
We're getting a lot of TV time from the pharmaceutical companies, but I dream of the day when people with FM will be guests on the talk shows, the news shows, something positive about us will be portrayed on the entertainment shows and no one anywhere will dare to make a mockery of such a horrible disease. (Yes, I know they say it isn't a disease. It's just a matter of time. Mark my words.)
So I watched an episode of Bones awhile ago and the murderer was a teacher who, when she was caught said she had FM and that she had pushed a guy into a poisonous fish tank because he had taken a lot of her money for a false cure to FM; then she said killing the guy must have cured her FM because she hadn't felt any pain since!
Puh-leeeez!
Here's the text from a transcript of the show:
"The Predator in the Pool"
Episode 5x18
Airdate: April 22, 2010
BOOTH: You said you didn't know who Jazz Gunn was.
GRACE: I went to nine of his seminars. I have fibromyalgia and that bastard convinced me that if I just faced my fears, that magically all of this pain would just disappear. He lied.
BOOTH: So you brought a group of fourth graders along as an alibi for murder?
GRACE: No, it was a coincidence. He took me back to see this poisonous fish. "Come face your fears," he said. Last thing he should have said to me right then. I'll tell you what, though. He might have been on to something, that bastard. Because ever since I shoved his lying face into that poisonous fish, I haven't felt any pain.
We're getting a lot of TV time from the pharmaceutical companies, but I dream of the day when people with FM will be guests on the talk shows, the news shows, something positive about us will be portrayed on the entertainment shows and no one anywhere will dare to make a mockery of such a horrible disease. (Yes, I know they say it isn't a disease. It's just a matter of time. Mark my words.)
So I watched an episode of Bones awhile ago and the murderer was a teacher who, when she was caught said she had FM and that she had pushed a guy into a poisonous fish tank because he had taken a lot of her money for a false cure to FM; then she said killing the guy must have cured her FM because she hadn't felt any pain since!
Puh-leeeez!
Here's the text from a transcript of the show:
"The Predator in the Pool"
Episode 5x18
Airdate: April 22, 2010
BOOTH: You said you didn't know who Jazz Gunn was.
GRACE: I went to nine of his seminars. I have fibromyalgia and that bastard convinced me that if I just faced my fears, that magically all of this pain would just disappear. He lied.
BOOTH: So you brought a group of fourth graders along as an alibi for murder?
GRACE: No, it was a coincidence. He took me back to see this poisonous fish. "Come face your fears," he said. Last thing he should have said to me right then. I'll tell you what, though. He might have been on to something, that bastard. Because ever since I shoved his lying face into that poisonous fish, I haven't felt any pain.
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