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Erythema Nodosum? Suspected Illness Decides to Drop-In on Life

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I wake up one day in my bed wondering randomly, “Okay what is today going to have in store for me?” Instinctively, I must have just known something was wrong. It was a Thursday.    I was in my backyard cleaning up pine, branches, trimmed up the lilacs and raked the yard. Like any other day I do any yard work, I took my allergy medicine.    I was okay with the exception of the regular hot shower needed afterword. Friday progressed as any other day but I started to feel achy, more than normal.    Maybe it was the cold from Autumn setting in.     Who knows?!    Get some rest and maybe Saturday will be better. When my days turned excruciating began when standing on my feet.    When a person lives daily with extreme amounts of pain, pain really doesn’t have very many levels of severity anymore.    But oh my knees. They just hurt but I just figured maybe because of the cold. Picture for effect “erythem...

MODY? The newer Genetic Diabetes Diagnosis

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Everyone has silent battles within the home.  Everyone that knows me knows I am not shy about my past and if you ask I will answer.  But what people haven’t asked about lately is why I have been so busy nonstop nor why have I been so "apparently distracted". I’m not just a caregiver of family and a mother.  I am also the glue for my family.  That’s not just a responsibility but some really don’t know what it’s like to be in constant triage mindset.  Always fixing something because something always comes up.  In fact, it happens at least a dozen times a day. What’s my current struggle? people have asked.  So I will answer. I am currently fighting for my daughter to be genetically tested for MODY because science doesn’t always meet with logic and common sense and frankly I am at wits end with medical professionals and other people who seem to not want to take me seriously. My Significant Other in September was on the verge of death (in...

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