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Oh, MAN, you hit it on the head. LOL! My mom also said "Eat around the walnuts!" Never mind they slice up my gums, give me swollen pieces on my tongue and make me cough!!

I told my mom I was having asthma attacks at school and she said, "You don't have asthma. Don't say that; people will think you're a hypochondriac." I was 9. When I think my asthma could have been controlled all those years instead of my having the rotten quality of life...

Other things my mom didn't believe in: pain management for children, cold remedies, headache medicine (I was told to go in a room and lie with my eyes closed until it passed)... What else... hay fever ("It's psychosomatic"), germ theory, and a stomach just ache meant I needed to go to the bathroom. Also: a/c. Did I mention heat is my biggest trigger??

Arg.

I try and focus on how BETTER my quality of life is now and how greatful I've met like-minded people who've been through as much as I have.

But it feels really good to vent about how evilly I was treated before I knew what was wrong with me. Makes me feel not so bad that I couldn't recognize how scr*wed my IBS was and so thankful that I'm being treated better now.

{{{{{DOUBLE HUGS}}}}} for the walnuts! Evil things.

~nelly~

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