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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Fasheem:
I have a minor blood clotting disorder, not even worth mentioning... except even though it's easier to spell than *copy and paste* eosinophilic fasciitis, I've never actually looked it up so I'm still not sure how. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/redface.gif Maybe I should do that sometime. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I finally looked it up. I have von Willebrand, which is only really dangerous if you have Type 3. I must have Type 1. The sad thing is, doctors recommend that people with von Willebrand don't participate in sports. Now they tell me! Just when Phys. Ed. is no longer compulsive! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/mad.gif I really wish I'd known about this before. I used to want to be sick (like coughing sick) when I was younger so I could get out of school and not have to attend gym. *whimpers* Forced participation. It made me what I am today.
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I'm very sorry to hear it, Bamfette. I hope we can be of support. The internet sure was a great help for me (I was hospitalized for half a year with mental problems a couple of years ago) Internet is cool because you don't get judged by what you look like, but just by what you have to say.
Anyway, I'm fine now (well, just a bit wierd, but that's why I'm here), and I hope you will be too, as far as possible.
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hehe. the Nightcrawler mutual cry-out shoulder http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif Hearing your problems mine don't seem so bad. I used to be very bipolar. That means you can go from happy happy joy joy tralala to screaming whining b*tch in 0.1 seconds. Violent moodswings and no control over your life whatsoever, kills your career and social life very effectively. After years of trouble I finally got hospitalized with a bad depression. I got over it really well, and I'm stability incarnate these days. The therapy and medication really helped, and I probably also grew over it. Gained 20 pounds in the proces, but it was a small price to pay http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif
There's a moral to this story, but I forgot what it was.
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[moral]Oh yeah: If you have mental problems, get help! And if you don't like the help, get other help! And talk about it to everyone (exept your boss) and you will find this happens all the time. Nothing to be ashamed of.[/moral] http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif
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[This message has been edited by Elwing (edited April 07, 2001).]
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Spatula Gal:
Jeez...Bamfette, Jezie, Tricky and others, I am so sorry you have these health problems. I've complained about my asthma, but its nothing to what's described here. I hope you all recieve the best of care and live long happy lives. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Well, according to this, I have until 21st of March 2056.
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Oh my God! How did you find that Tricky?
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Well, according to this, I have until 21st of March 2056.
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Hah! I'll live until Oct. 10, 2058! (Not that it matters... it's just fun to brag. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif)
BTW, get better, Bamfette! (Sorry it took me so long. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/redface.gif)
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Ok, this is what is wrong with me.
I was born 3 months premature. I was supposed to be born on Dec 24th or 25th , I forget which. Instead, I was born Sept 29. I'm 19 years old, my mom had me when she was 18. I am literaly lucky to be alive. If my mom had gone home instead of staying the night at my grandparents house, when she went into labor, she would of bled to death, and I would of died inside her. Luckily, we got to the hospital in time. My mom says I was almost born on the way to the hospital. While my mom was in labor with me, my dad showed up drunk as a skunk, and my mom sat up and screamed at him "WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU???" It took her 4 hours to give birth to me. (For a woman's first child, and in her case only child, that's pertty fast.)
I spent the first 3 months of my life in the hospital. I was so small that my mom could lay me on her lap and I would fit. My feet were the size of her thumbs, and she could rub my back with one hand. Now it takes 2 hands and I love to have not just my back rubbed, but also my feet, hands, and ears. I weighed 2 pounds and 2 ounces and they had me in a incubater(sp?) in a little while. While I was there, a premature baby boy died. It scared the helli out of my mom and grandparents. One of the nurses said the only reason I was alive was because I was a girl.
I was born with black hair about an inch long, all over my head and it pissed the other mothers off, because their kids were bald. They said "Oh it'll fall out." It never did, and it now to the middle of my back.
I was born with water on the brain. They put in a shunt to drain it and I still have a little bit of it in my head. I literaly have a dent in my head from where the shunt was.
I used to have cereabal pasly (sp?) when I was a baby. I would have seizsures. It effected the right side of my body more then the left. Today, whenever my right foot is tickled, my leg will jerk up in a muscle reflex.
I also have had surgery on both of my legs twice. The tendons in my legs were too short, so they had to go in and strech them. A baby learns to walk when they are how old, one or so? I didn't learn untill I was about 2 I think. I have a surgery scar on both legs on the inside from that. They are about 3 inches long I think. Whenever I see the insides of my friends legs, I think something is wrong and it takes me a sec to realize that they don't have surgery scars and their legs are normal. Only it seems strange to me, because the scars are normal for me. When I'm in the car, or out in the yard, I have to have shoes on and they have to cover my feet entirely, so no sandles, because if I don't, my feet tingle and they feel unprotected. Psychlogical effect from this.
I am scared to death of needles. I panic and start to cry everytime I get a shot. Another psychlogical effect I guess.
Nowadays, I'm perfectly fine. I walk with a slight gate because of my legs, but you'd never know unless you where staring at my legs or if I told you.
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Omigosh...I feel so lucky after reading this thread. I'm not being facetious either, because I had an immune disorder, as well as my asthma, that kept me from attending school normally until the sixth grade. But for all those with challenges, past or present, bravo to you and I hope to see you for years as an Elficionado!
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Man, I wish I had some good psychological reason, but I'm just incredibly afraid of needles for no apparent reason that I know of.
My parents knew this and still made me go (all alone) to the drugstore to get my flu shot, which ended up with me crying hysterically and completely flustering the poor lady trying to give me my shot...
I think it just has to do with the fact that I hate the idea of something being injected into my muscles/bloodstream... it just doesn't feel like it should be there. Giving blood doesn't bother me half so much, though I still tense up and they have to try the damn thing at least 2 or 3 times...
Anyway. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif
Jyuu-chan
(No debilitating diseases here...)
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