Tag: diagnosis
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In Which Amelia Processes the Experience of Gaslighting Herself
Anyone else have an experience like this? Near the beginning of the year, I did something (I don’t even remember what) and I immediately knew that I had made a mistake. Something pulled in my back and I knew I was in for a few days of pain. No biggie, right? Bodies are built so…
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I cried
On Friday I cried in the car. They were happy tears sprinkled with a little grief. What triggered these tears? I enjoyed a shopping trip with my kids for the first time ever. This is despite the fact that it was almost 4 hours long. Despite Butterfly hiding in clothes racks and losing her shoe.…
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The Time I Had an MRI
I have been experiencing shaking and fatigue in my hands. Holding onto things is difficult. Opening things has been almost impossible. I needed to thread a needle and that was a joke. Playing the piano has been exhausting for my hands. After experiencing these symptoms for a few months, hoping they would magically go away,…
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Don’t be like me-a passive cheerleader
My wife told me on numerous occasions of her new symptoms. She couldn’t quantify or qualify them other than “I hurt”; other times it was “I am exhausted”. These talks rarely occurred in a sit-down or even sick-in-bed kind of way. For the first year, they were mostly just part of the day-to-day check-in one…
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How I got diagnosed-Missy
Hypermobility By the time I was 5, I had dislocated my elbow 3 times. The last time I remember well. It was a few days before my 5th birthday. I was playing ring around the rosy with a friend. We spun too fast and too hard. I stumbled and he didn’t let go. My elbow…
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