I have had lots of people ask me how I got started writing these little stories. Well, I always wrote stuff like this, but just in email to friends and family. After having more than a few medical issues last year, I sent out an email synopsis of my current medical situation, and my friend Leslie was on the list. Once she got it, she asked me to contribute to her Lazy Mom's website, which I happily did. This is the medical update email that I sent out:
I got my biopsy results back. I am cancer-free, but I have some disease called Sarcoidosis, which is some kind of auto-immune disease, which basically means my body hates me because I have treated it like crap for so many years. Anyway, this can be something with no symptoms or a million symptoms...it's just a waiting game. I have no symptoms right now, so we just keep an eye on it with yearly x-rays, so if nothing else, I will have so much radiation from those I will get some other horrible ailment in the future, or maybe just turn into some kind of super hero, which is fine, because then i could wear an awesome costume, but I hope the bottom part can be made out of the same material they use to make Spanx, because those things make my body look rockin'. If I do turn into a super-hero, don't start whining at me to do all your little "emergencies", like getting kitties outta trees and stopping your car when the breaks go out and stuff, because i am gonna be more of a shopping and happy hour kind've a super hero. I may be based in Mexico, or Fiji. Anyway, I do want to mention that my Dr. says that this disease is very rare in people like me, i.e. "white chicks". ALmost all people that get this are african american women. I told him that I think this gives me alot more street cred, and I suddenly feel much cooler and even closer to Obama than I felt before. I ROCK!
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Hello, my fellow sarcoidosin!
ReplyDeleteHave you heard any information on staying away from places with lots of geese and ducks, as their waste can causeSarcoidosis? I think I've heard people with this affliction tell me at certain ponds and such, there are even signs warning of exposure and Sarcoidosis.
ReplyDeleteI live in a heavily "laked" area of Michigan, and there are tons of geese. I have a friend whose diagnosis took so long, she was at deaths door. She had to take the "stone" she coughed out of her lung with her to the hospital to get them to see what she was dealing with. She was in the hospital for a very long time, and lost part lf her lung.
My vet even told me that since geesewill always fly over our yard and drop waste,my dogs are always at risk for hook worm and whip worm (both of which they both had at the same time.)
Anyway with the blabbing... Just wondering if you've been told to stay away from areas with high consentrations of geese. (i don't even know if Texas has geese... But my brother and SIL live quite close to you, I believe, in Sugar Land. Icould always call them and find out. ;-)
Kirsten Brickner