Re: THE RANT THREAD!
There are times I really despise the medical world... my mother is a hypochondriac, no doubt about it, but she is also actually sickly... I think it's like a cyclical thing, she's believed she's on the verge of a deadly illness for so long, and has pressured docs into so much meds and treatments that weren't really necessary, that her body's just starting to break down(like thrush from all the antibiotics they've put her on with such intense regularity...). Turns out the most recent rash of illnesses is due to her being deficient in vitamin B12... extremely deficient... like half the necessary levels, and their only finding this out after months of having all of these symptoms...
She's had major back surgery from a ruptured disk resulting in permanent nerve damage, a foot and a half of intestine removed for diverticulosis... hope spell check spelt that right, serious infections no one can get rid of, cysts on her overies so sever that she had to have her overies removed (she'd had her uterus removed when I was very little for "precancer" cells...) thrush, extreme weight loss, sores in her mouth and nose, numbness, dizziness, tingling.. who knows what else.
Why world why? Ugh.
There are times I really despise the medical world... my mother is a hypochondriac, no doubt about it, but she is also actually sickly... I think it's like a cyclical thing, she's believed she's on the verge of a deadly illness for so long, and has pressured docs into so much meds and treatments that weren't really necessary, that her body's just starting to break down(like thrush from all the antibiotics they've put her on with such intense regularity...). Turns out the most recent rash of illnesses is due to her being deficient in vitamin B12... extremely deficient... like half the necessary levels, and their only finding this out after months of having all of these symptoms...
She's had major back surgery from a ruptured disk resulting in permanent nerve damage, a foot and a half of intestine removed for diverticulosis... hope spell check spelt that right, serious infections no one can get rid of, cysts on her overies so sever that she had to have her overies removed (she'd had her uterus removed when I was very little for "precancer" cells...) thrush, extreme weight loss, sores in her mouth and nose, numbness, dizziness, tingling.. who knows what else.
Why world why? Ugh.
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