Need Insight Badly

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Registered: 08-19-2005
Need Insight Badly
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Fri, 08-19-2005 - 10:11pm
Quick, quick rundown on me (please bear with me):
I was super healthy until I was twenty and diagnosed with endometriosis and arthritis out of the blue my sophmore year. Reoccuring kidney stones developed when I was twenty-two and not long after constant diahrea and abdominal pain which was diagnosed as some form of IBD last fall after colonoscopy and I was put on Asacol and scheduled for an endoscopy because the doctor thinks chron's disease (runs in my family as well) but I lost my insurence and my job so no go and I can't afford medications that weren't even helping that much. Ahhh, going crazy, in the last two monthes I've lost almost thirty pounds and I have these hard painless lumps on my neck. I just want to get back to normal and get my life in order.
I listen to all these amazing stories about women who have had a million more problems than me and have managed to work and go to school and raise 90 children and I just don't know how they do it. My parents aren't supportive (mom's very very sick) and my boyfriends out of state taking care of his eldery parents and can't do much for me at the moment though he is super supportive emotionally. I finished a contract job a month and a half ago but because of constantly getting sick my work record is awful and I just don't know where to begin to get my life together. I am a very positive person but this is gradually becoming more and more draining and I have lost a lot of perspective.
So if anyone has ever gone through anything similiar when they first started out or just has some good old fashioned advice I could really use it. Anything would be better than people who tell me to suck it up when they're not the ones who spend six hours a day in the bathroom.
Thanks so much for listening, sorry for spelling, grammer and general lack of coherence I'm a little nuts right now. Thanks again.
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Registered: 10-14-2003
Sat, 08-20-2005 - 6:19pm

Hi and Welcome

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Registered: 08-19-2005
Sun, 08-21-2005 - 7:15pm
I have been walking a lot for the last couple of monthes and it really does help. And I write everything down. Thanks so much for the advice, I really appreciate it to no end.
Thanks again, amanda.
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Registered: 10-14-2003
Sun, 08-21-2005 - 8:14pm

Sometimes

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Mon, 08-22-2005 - 10:27pm

Hi Amanda,


I am glad you are feeling better and the venting helped.

 
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Registered: 08-19-2005
Tue, 08-23-2005 - 3:28pm
Thanks so much for the advice, I will definitely check out the Salvation Army and see what I can find out. I'm having a good day today and had a nice long walk. Thanks again for everything. amanda
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Registered: 03-23-2003
Tue, 08-23-2005 - 8:54pm

Amanda,


Hold your head high, you have nothing to be ashamed of.