What is Environmental-Allergies

An allergy can refer to several kinds of immune reactions including Type I hypersensitivity in which a person's body is hypersensitised and develops IgE type antibodies to typical ...

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Wednesday November 25, 2009

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  • Journal Entry for February 1, 2008

    Friday, February 1, 2008 | A Painful story

    My symptoms...
    •    Chronic muscle pain & aching (constant in neck, back, arms, legs, knees, ankles)
    •    Sensitivity to touch (physiotherapist pressed on 18 trigger points for FM, & 17 were sensitive: Jan 2008)
    •    Tingling of skin (legs, heels)
    •    Muscle spasms (legs)
    •    Temporomandibular...




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  • my uncle

    Friday, January 2, 2009 | A Sad story

    MY UNCLE HAS BEEN IN CRITICAL CONDITION FOR MORE THAN A WEEK.  TODAY DOCTORS DIDN'T THINK HE WOULD MAKE THE NIGHT.  I JUST GOT A  PHONE CALL A FEW MINUTES AGO FROM MY AUNT SAYING HE PASSED. I'M GOING TO MISS HIM VERY MUCH. BUT HE WAS SUFFERING AND I DON'T WISH THAT ON AMYONE SO I'M GLAD GOD CALLED HIM HOME AND NOW HE IS IN PEACE.

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  • hate my stupid heart

    Thursday, July 31, 2008 | A Venting story

    i wish i never had that open heart surgery...and the one after to remove the fluid around my heart.....now i have this horrible pain in my incision-which is quite long btw. one doc called it  " neuropathy" i was on extra strength percocets....now lyrica and vicodin. started cardiac rehab. i am by far the youngest!!!!! i dunno how i feel about rehab it's exercise and the surgery...

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  • Journal Entry for August 4, 2008

    Monday, August 4, 2008 | A Venting story

    had rehab today-man that treadmill kicked my ass toward the the end. i'm glad i have that lady to talk to there...moron yelled at me-of course he was drinking-cuz i didn't have the ringer on the phone and i'd called my doc and left a message for her. i didn't see the message,but he did...man it is SO over as far as i'm concerned....when i went for MAJOR surgery-ie-my 2 valves ...

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  • This was written just last night.....Things have been bad.

    Sunday, May 24, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    Well things havent improved since I last updated u all on my situation. On Wednesday my mom was admitted to the psych ward at the local hospital. Apparently her schizophrenia which I just recently learned of, is out of control and she has had a nervous meltdown of some sort. I was told that they were only going to be able to keep her for 3 days since she signed herself in at the advice of her psy...

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  • getting closer

    Friday, May 15, 2009 | A Venting story

    As some of my friends know i have been experiancing Headaches, nausea,random sickness and stomach pain under one of my scars.so i went to my doctor back in Febuary and he thought it best to send me to hospital for a checkup with my NS because i havent saw her in nearly 5 years well on the 11th of May i got a phonecall saying that she wanted to admit me for observation/tests to check my shunt is w...

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  • just let me die

    Friday, August 29, 2008

    If my life continues this way please God just let me die. I cant take much more.

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  • relapsing (could trigger)

    Sunday, July 13, 2008 | An Anxious story

    How funny that just yesterday I journaled about accepting myself and today I deserve nothing less than starvation and death. I HATE my fat stupid thigshs. The rest of my body is losing weight while I still hve a butt and thighs and I wish I could cut them off and if it meant bleeding to death to look thinner, so be it. I HATE myself so much. I can't do anything right. Normally I don't men...

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  • I'm losing my husband to Alzheimers big time!!

    Sunday, October 19, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    My husband was supposed to have an angioplasty on his leg on the 28th of this month.  He had one previously and got through it pretty go - a littlle more memory loss but he was forgetting as usual.  He just had another one the other day and I didn't know that he was in the hospital.  I Kept calling his cell phone and thought that maybe he was asleep and wasn't answering and...

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  • this goddamn valve can go to hell !!!!!!!!!

    Saturday, August 9, 2008 | A Venting story

    i am just so sick of it all ! had to have the FIRST surgery cuz of my valve. then during surgery, they fix a different one. then ,not even a month later,fluid around my stupid heart. ever since that 1st surgery-BECAUSE of the stupid st.Jude's mechanical mitral valve,i now have to take coumadin everyday ,for the rest of my life !!!!!AND- there are certain foods i must avoid because they have v...

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