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DeadliestPoison · #**121** 01-07-2005, 04:49 PM

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I enjoy reading, listening to music, and seeing movies in my spare time. Especially independent films, lately.

Mmm, indie films. I loooove the little arthouse cinema near where I live. The cleanest theater I've ever been in. Swoon. If I had digital cable, I'm sure I would always be on the indie film channel. Or VH1Classic.

Juniors represent! Woot.

GypsySorcerer · #**122** 01-07-2005, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by takenbythesky

I'm a junior in high school. I go to physical therapy twice each week to help get my walking ability back to normal. I enjoy reading, listening to music, and seeing movies in my spare time. Especially independent films, lately. :shrugs: My life is fairly boring...

Oh, wow. I thought you were older. Not in bad way - you just seem very mature.

dissention · #**123** 01-07-2005, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

Mmm, indie films. I loooove the little arthouse cinema near where I live. The cleanest theater I've ever been in. Swoon. If I had digital cable, I'm sure I would always be on the indie film channel. Or VH1Classic.

Junior represent! Woot.

The Sundance Channel kicks ass, too.

And my local arthouse theater is a rats nest. And I love it. The floors look like someone pulled a Jackson Pollock on them.

ryan8472 · #**124** 01-07-2005, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by takenbythesky

Let's see...How to make a long story short. In early October of 2002, I woke up and I felt really disoriented and dizzy, started walking into walls...Over the next week or so I just got weaker and weaker, eventually having to use a wheelchair. To be honest no one is sure exactly what happened. For a while some doctors claimed it was a psychiatric problem with me, which drove me NUTS, but now the general medical consensus is: something happened, we just don't know what.

I've been through, let's see, four neurologists and I'm going to see a new one in a couple weeks. Doctors are like people in every other occupation, some are good and some aren't so good, it's just that with doctors the stakes are higher when they AREN'T good. If only there were more people in the medical profession who were more open-minded like Curtis...Anyway, in a nutshell, that's what happened.

And, in case you all are wondering, I'm expected to fully recover eventually.

That's totally weird. Unfortunate too. I'm relieved to hear you're getting better though!

golddustwoman77 · #**125** 01-07-2005, 05:05 PM

For fun: Work out, play guitar, listen to music, read, hang out with friends, head the democratic party in my county, and drink and study wines.

For work: grade papers, plan lessons, review textbooks for my county's textbook adoption committee (I'm the chairperson for my school), coach the Scholar's Bowl Team, and choreograph dance routines for our cheerleaders and the dance team.

dissention · #**126** 01-07-2005, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by takenbythesky

Let's see...How to make a long story short. In early October of 2002, I woke up and I felt really disoriented and dizzy, started walking into walls...Over the next week or so I just got weaker and weaker, eventually having to use a wheelchair. To be honest no one is sure exactly what happened. For a while some doctors claimed it was a psychiatric problem with me, which drove me NUTS, but now the general medical consensus is: something happened, we just don't know what.

I've been through, let's see, four neurologists and I'm going to see a new one in a couple weeks. Doctors are like people in every other occupation, some are good and some aren't so good, it's just that with doctors the stakes are higher when they AREN'T good. If only there were more people in the medical profession who were more open-minded like Curtis...Anyway, in a nutshell, that's what happened.

And, in case you all are wondering, I'm expected to fully recover eventually.

Did you ever go to an Epstein Barr/Chronic Fatigue specialist? I had the some of the same symptoms years ago (disorientation, dizziness, etc.) and that's what I was diagnosed with. Took me a few years to kick that ****.

Mari · #**127** 01-07-2005, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by takenbythesky

Let's see...How to make a long story short. In early October of 2002, I woke up and I felt really disoriented and dizzy, started walking into walls...Over the next week or so I just got weaker and weaker, eventually having to use a wheelchair. To be honest no one is sure exactly what happened. For a while some doctors claimed it was a psychiatric problem with me, which drove me NUTS, but now the general medical consensus is: something happened, we just don't know what.

I've been through, let's see, four neurologists and I'm going to see a new one in a couple weeks. Doctors are like people in every other occupation, some are good and some aren't so good, it's just that with doctors the stakes are higher when they AREN'T good. If only there were more people in the medical profession who were more open-minded like Curtis...Anyway, in a nutshell, that's what happened.

And, in case you all are wondering, I'm expected to fully recover eventually.

Oh.. that really drives me mad, when people (doctors or not) will tell you it's psychiatrical just because they can't find another cause!

Wish you well, though

GateandGarden · #**128** 01-07-2005, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by takenbythesky

And, in case you all are wondering, I'm expected to fully recover eventually.

I'm glad to hear that.

DrummerDeanna · #**129** 01-07-2005, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Mari

Oh.. that really drives me mad, when people (doctors or not) will tell you it's psychiatrical just because they can't find another cause!

Wish you well, though

Hey...that happened in a Golden Girls episode...with Dorothy - and I believe she ended up having Epsein Barr

dissention · #**130** 01-07-2005, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by takenbythesky

No...Thank you for the recommendation! We've suspected Chronic Fatigue, but every doctor goes red in the face and little veins pop out of their foreheads when we bring it up.

Someone just asked me two days ago if I was ever tested for Epstein-Barr, and I realized that I don't know if I have been or not. I'm going to have to check that out today...

Most doctors know next to nothing about it, that's why they start to sweat you bring it up. What you should do is call your insurance company and ask them to give the name of a specialist in your area, they should have a few names at least. If you do have it, though, expect to take 50 vitamins a day.

And be sure to collect Social Security if you're diagnosed with it, you automatically qualify for it.

amber · #**131** 01-07-2005, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by golddustwoman77

For fun: Work out, play guitar, listen to music, read, hang out with friends, head the democratic party in my county, and drink and study wines.

For work: grade papers, plan lessons, review textbooks for my county's textbook adoption committee (I'm the chairperson for my school), coach the Scholar's Bowl Team, and choreograph dance routines for our cheerleaders and the dance team.

Gaw, Lazy people like you really make me sick!!!

JK, obviously...good job!!!!

macmar71 · #**132** 01-07-2005, 06:15 PM

At Work: I answer phones, set up appointments, take Xrays of the foot and ankle, clean and stock rooms, set up surgeries, contact insurance companies about coverage of surgeries and orthotics, autoclave instruments and make plaster impressions of feet for orthotics and molded shoes.

At Home: I relax and sleep when I can, when I am awake I surf the web, shop online, watch TV, listen to music, read a book ~ always have one with me no matter where I go, clean the kitchen and my bathroom ~ my bedroom is cluttered as always, go shopping, talk on the phone with a couple of friends, cook a nice meal once or twice a week, get my nails done or do them myself, when it is nice out go for walks