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Open Pregnancy - Teens

mom of 4 wonderful kids and i love every second of it. my son Chris was born 12/14/00, my daughter Destiny was born 2/28/02, and my twins Xavior and Dakota (boy and girl) were born 1/31/03. they aren't my biological kids, they are my god kids but i pretty much raised them for a few years. Destiny's father took in them all and is raising them well with his wife. their birth mother had too many medical problems and found it hard to raise her kids and couldn't give them up for adoption.

Open Teens With Cancer

I was diagnosed with cervical cancer right after my 19th birthday what a present. I have lost many family members to cancer, but will not let it tear me down. I continue to live life to it's fullest.

Open Pregnancy

I practically raised my god kids, and have 18 neices and nephews so I know a little about pregnancy.

Open Bereavement
Type: Loss of a Relative

I lost my mom-mom(mom's mother) April 10, 1998 to cancer. I just lost my first baby while pregnant at 9 weeks exactly. It was growing in my left tube I had surgery to remove it.

Treatments

Crying Working / Worked

it works sometimes but other times it makes me feel worse because i know my mom-mom is not there to dry my tears. I cry for my unborn baby when it's around the time i would feel sick to my stomach or when i see someone pregnant.

Music Working / Worked

i listen to her favorite song and it makes me think of my mom-mom. I have been trying to find a song to remember my unborn baby I lost at 9 weeks into the pregnancy.

Poetry Working / Worked

i actually don't write poetry but i write letters to my mom-mom and have a notebook full of them. I wrote a letter to my unborn baby while I was pregnant with it, and then wrote a letter to it after I lost it.

Remembering Working / Worked

when i feel down or really depressed i think of happy times with my mom-mom. After I lost my baby I have tried to buy a few things that I could remebre him/her by.

Scrapbooking Working / Worked

I have a scrapbook I have been working on and made a few memorial pages to my unvborn baby. I have also made 2 pages for my mom-mom.

Open Depression - Teen

I was diagnosed with depression when I was in 7th grade, I was about 13 maybe 14. I have had it since my grandmother on my mom's side passed away April 1998. It's tough and not many know about it. My fiance and a very few close friends are the only ones who know about it, not even my family knows about it, as I don't know how to handle it with them.

Treatments

Crying Working / Worked

it helps most of the times, but not always i refuse to take any meds for my depression as i had a problem with meds ans used to try to kill myself with them a lot when i was younger. i try to keep positive but it's hard with all the stuff i have going on in my life

Music Working / Worked

I listen to my mom-mom's fave song. my mom-mom is my mom's mother who passed away April 1998 and is the reason for my depression. I know it may sound mean to blame it on her, but I have depression as a result of her passing.

Positive Thinking Working / Worked

it only helps when i start to get depressed not if i'm already at the bottom of the pit

Support from Friends & Family Working / Worked

It helps a lot

Writing Working / Worked

it helps for a little but not all the time

Open Infertility
Type: Ovarian Issues

I was diagnosed with pre-cervical cancer 1 week after my 19th birthday which was June 2006. I may be young, but my family has troubl concieving, and I want nothing more than to be a mommy. I am with an amazing man and can't wait too be his wife.

Treatments

Crying Working / Worked

it only works sometimes when it does i feel a little better that I did

Talking Somewhat Helpful

I sometimes talk to my fiance or my best friend about my infertility struggles. It sometimes helps me.

Open Adoption

I am on this board in case I decide to adopt.

Open Pregnancy After Loss/Infertility

on here in case I ever do become pregnant

Open Asthma
Type: Childhood Asthma

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was a child and have since had it "disappear." For a time in my life it was really bad, since then it is only certine times that it bothers me which I am glad about. I am always looking to hear new things to help with asthma.

Treatments

Inhaler Working / Worked

I'm guessing it worked becasue when I was a on it for about 2 yrs as a child the dr told me I didn't need it anymore as my asthma was A LOT better.

Open Step Families

My parents are married for the 1st time to other people. My parents had me "out of wedlock" and broke up before I was born. I love the step-parents like they are a second parent. My step-dad has 2 daughters, but only knows one. His oldest daughter's mother and husbands banned him from seeing her as a child and he is trying to find her now that she's 18+. My step-mom walso has a daughter, I love my step-sisters like they were my blood little sisters, which includes my step-dad's oldest daughter.

Open Family & Friends of Cancer Patients

My grandmother on my mom's isde passed away at 53 4/10/98. I was only 10 yrs old, I'm not really sure what cancer she passed away from, but she also had uterine sarcoma at age 27. My aunt on my dad's side passed away 5/5/04 from lung cncer. I was able to handle that seemingly well until I see my dad crying. I have mild displaysia (pre-cancerous cells on the cervix), and found out 1 week after my 19th birthday (6/11/06). I had cryosurgery done, which is where the freeze the cells.

Open Nutrition

I am looking to talk with other people who have changed their eating habit or are trying to change their eating habits. I have too many health problems that run in my family and I am looking for people to talk to that have gone through food life change. I would like to get healthier, and not just becasue of the health problems that run in my family.

Treatments

Counting Calories Working / Worked

Its somewhat helpful. Some times I foget to write in it so sometime I take in more calories thatn I should per day. not to self make sure I always write in my food diary.

Open Fitness Goals

I have battled with a weight problem since I was 9yrs old. A little after I turned 9 I put on weight for no reason, and ever since then it had been extremely hard for me to lose weight.

Treatments

Dancing Working / Worked

I used to take salsa dance lessons, but when I moved from my dad's house into my fiance's back in 2005 I stopped. I will be trying to get more dance lesons though.

Personal Trainer Too Soon to Tell

I am joining a gym soon and will have a personal trainer, but for now my fiance is my coach for making sure I do everything right.

Weight Training Too Soon to Tell

I'm going to be joing a gym next month (May), and will be working with my fiance and a personal trainer. I hope it will work for me to lose weight.

Open Miscarriage

I found out May4th that I was pregnant with my first baby after being told I would need fertility drugs in order to get pregnant. I became pregnant without fertility meds. I found out May 27th that I had already lost the baby and needed surgery to remove the sac

Treatments

Crying Somewhat Helpful

I cry from the pain of losing the baby and sometimes it helps me other times it feels like I just cry and cry and cry like I'm never going to stop.

Laparoscopic Surgery Working / Worked

Om May 27th I had an appointment for another ultrasound to see if I had an eptopic pregnancy because the baby wasn't in my uterus. The dr found the baby in my left tube and but I had already lost the baby so it was just the sac left. I had my surgery around 6pm630pm. They were able to just remove the sac so I have both tubes and bother ovaries.