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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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Sunday November 29, 2009

Venting Stories

  • having a hard time right now

    Sunday, August 3, 2008 | A Venting story

    i think i am going crazy.  i can't seem to stop worrying about my healthy.  first i thought i had breast cancer, then i thought i had a heart probem, then i thought i had a brain tumor and now i am worrying about my heart again.  i feel this faint discomfort around my first and second ribs on the left side, pretty close to my armpit.  i used to get pain there when i had sh...

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  • Bad Day Today

    Monday, August 11, 2008 | A Venting story

    I am SO sick of doctors!  I preppred for the stupid colonoscopy for Friday and of course nothing.  Now he wants to do another test, and I'm not even done with the nightmare from Friday's!  I'm sicker than a dog, I'm in so much pain right now.  Why do these doctor's not give a shit?  Everytime I prep for these tests, I get sicker than I already am and f...

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  • DiE.

    Friday, August 15, 2008 | A Venting story

    I am just so mad right now and I don't want to say why right now but I am just so mad.  UGH.  I am soooooo sick of him!  MOJKDSFKJSDFJDSOFIJOFIDIUSFHIUSGDHASJDOISEHRF.  I don't like loving him because it's not even worth it anymore.  It just makes me feel like shit.  Especially when he doesn't love me back.  I just want him to finally spit out th...

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  • 18 months in the dark

    Sunday, November 23, 2008 | A Venting story

    It's been 18 months since my diagnosis of MM, and I'm more depressed now than I have ever been, and more lost and confused than a grown man has the right to be. I've gone the course with three different anti-depressants and nothing seems to be working.  To make matters worse, I've not slept well for over a month since I had a sinus operation to help stop a sinus infection tha...

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  • Just another sleepless night.

    Monday, September 7, 2009 | A Venting story


    I doubt anyone will be reading these journal entries other than myself. Either way, I think writing out my pain is one of the only ways I can deal with it. After three years, actually I've lost count, you seem to keep the pain to yourself and search the internet on the late, sleepless nights. Though I'm open with everything else in my life, my pain seems to be the one thing I try to avoid...

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