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Herpes zoster, colloquially known as shingles, is the reactivation of varicella zoster virus, leading to a crop of painful blisters over the area of a dermatome. It occurs very rar...

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Saturday November 28, 2009

Call For Help Stories

  • things are so much easier this way

    Monday, March 24, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    ive given up on hanging out with alot of y frineds
    things seem easier ive pushed away many good frineds but i enjoy it
    i began to not care about anything anymore
    things are so out of control lately ive just been sleeping away life.
    ive had a good couple days but it all stops once i relize its one simple routine that drives me insne.
    i want to move and start over again
    i ust wish i was somewhere else s...





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  • Itchy scar.....yikes!!! and neck burning...

    Tuesday, September 23, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    ok....The wrist did not heal right so after all this time I brought my uniforms back to McDonalds as I cannot handle it, they held my job for me but there is no chance of even being useful there now....
    Medicaid did come thru for me and has been taking care of everything..so basically financially am ok there....
    BUT....the chest scar is driving me nutzo! Itches almost 7/24.....I am afraid I am goin...

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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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  • I hope that God is reading this entry because I still feel so horrible.  I feel so shaky and my chest feels so weird.  I know that my heart was hurting on Thursday on the way home and then yesterday I had a horrible headache that felt alright when the lights were out but when they were on WOW!!!!   I used to get migraines before and thought they were bad but my head hurt so ba...

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  • I had my appointment today with the Endrochronologist but before we were picked up my Mother desides to start ragging on me because I had asked her to take my O2 canister off the filling machine and after two seconds of trying she said her usual response "I can't do this" and then I said that I knew I was going to get her stock answer.  Then I told her it figured because she wa...

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  • Having trouble with weight and only have myself to blame.

    Thursday, January 22, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    I don't want to eat :(.  I just can't take looking at myself.  I feel like such a fat cow but it's obviously not true.  I don't want to feel this way..
    the only thing that is stopping me right now from not eating is that I'm afraid to not get my periods and lose my hair..
    I cherish both of those too much.  I hate this.  Save me.
    I want it all to go away, ...


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  • About me...

    Friday, March 20, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    I guess I never really said much about who I am, or rather who I was before all this happened to me. I'm 51 and live in central Maine. I'm divorced and have 3 cats (rescue), a service dog for my Panic Disorder and PTSD and still can't say no to an animal in need so I now have an 8 week old long-haired Chihuaha (they think) that I've had for 3 weeks. He's now much better, was a...

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  • SOS How to handle a 10yr daughter!!

    Thursday, July 2, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    It is sad when all I think about is 8 more years then my 10yr old daughter can move out!! I am having such a hard time dealing with her attitude, eye rolling and sassy mouth!! I even told my friend yesterday I am tossing divorce around in my head just so I don't have to be by her. But I love James way to much to leave him and would miss my son.
    Is this normal to dislike the sight of your...

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  • God please!

    Thursday, October 1, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    this past month has been hellish.... the cymbalta putting my colon to sleep, then having to get off the stuff and side effects.... which i'm still weaning off it. it has put my body thru hell.
    and then .... now-- i gotta deal with Matthew's recent suicide thoughts and threats for a week now. he told his psychiatrist yesterday (while they held him there against his will) that I was to blam...

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