When asked what caused it, the doctor shrugged and said “birth”. The only difference between his c-section and my 3 others was he had some fluid left in his lungs after birth. That can happen with a c-section though. He did have a choking incident on day two in which he choked on his vomit and couldn’t breathe for 1-2 minutes (due to the severe milk protein allergy, and GERD. And yes I was nursing him.). Nurse couldn’t get him to breathe, had to take him to the nursery to clear his airway. Nothing more was mentioned, so I really don’t know how long he was choking. I would have thought that if it had been “brain damage” serious they would have told me. Nothing was done about the cause of the vomiting. I got him diagnosed at 2.5 weeks at the pediatric gastro’s office. The doctor doesn’t think the atrophy will get worse. He seems to interact fine and babble a lot, but it’s his body that doesn’t seem to be working correctly.

So far all the tests have come back normal. He has been tested for metabolic diseases, micro deletions on DNA, thyroid, etc. I’m getting the sense that they don’t want to say what it is. Just like the time I got hurt in the car accident, and I had trouble getting a diagnosis. He has no facial characteristics typical of any of the trisomy defects (like Down’s etc.)

The neurologist said the hypotonia, dysphagia, chronic constipation, delayed gastic emptying, delayed milestones, and seizures could all be caused by the brain atrophy. The GERD, and reflux he feels is separate.

Any feedback, hints are appreciated.

As I was nursing my baby, my cousin’s six-year-old daughter, Krissy,
came into the room. Never having seen anyone breast feed before,
she was intrigued and full of all kinds of questions about what I was
doing. After mulling over my answers, she remarked, ‘My mom has
some of those, but I don’t think she knows how to use them.’
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Out bicycling one day with my eight-year-old granddaughter, Carolyn,
I got a little wistful. ‘In ten years,’ I said, ‘you’ll want to be with your friends
and you won’t go walking, biking, and swimming with me like you do now.’
Carolyn shrugged. ‘In ten years you’ll be too old to do all those things anyway.’
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Dinosaurs are fascinating. My th ree-year-old is obsessed with them.
Recently we were riding on a bus, and he asked another passenger
for her name.

‘My name is Deena,’ she said. ‘Can you say Deena?’

‘Deena,’ said my son. ‘Can you say pachycephalosaurus?’
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Working as a pediatric nurse, I had the difficult assignment
of giving immunization shots to children. One day I entered the
examining room to give four-year-old Lizzie her needle. ‘No, no,
no!’ she screamed.
‘Lizzie,’ scolded her mother, ‘that’s not polite behavior.’

With that, the girl yelled even louder, ‘No, thank
you! No, thank you!
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Jake is 5 and learning to read.

He points at a picture in a zoo book and says,
‘Look Mama! It’s a frickin’ Elephant!’

Deep breath … ‘What did you call it?’

‘It’s a frickin’ Elephant, Mama! It says so
on the picture!’

And so it does …

‘A f r i c a n Elephant’

Hooked on phonics!!! Ain’t it wonderful?
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One afternoon while I was visiting my library, I noticed a group
of preschoolers gathered for story time. The book they were
reading was There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. After
the librarian finished the first page, she asked the children,
‘Do you think she’ll die?’

‘Nope,’ a little girl in the back said. ‘I saw this last night on Fear
Factor.’
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My sister had been ill, so I called to see how she was
doing. My ten-year-old niece answered the phone. ‘Hello,’
she whispered. ‘Hi, honey. How’s your mother?’ I asked..

‘She’s sleeping,’ she answered, again in a whisper.

‘Did she go to the doctor?’ I asked.

‘Yes. She got some medicine,’ my niece said softly.

‘Well, don’t wake her up. Just tell her I
called. What are you doing, by the way?’

Again in a soft whisper, she answered,
‘Practicing my trumpet.’

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On the way back from a Cub Scout meeting, my grandson
asked my son the question. ‘Dad, I know that babies come from
mommies’ tummies, but how do they get there in the first place?’
he asked innocently.

After my son hemmed and hawed awhile, my grandson
finally spoke up in disgust. ‘You don’t have to make something up,
Dad. It’s OK if you don’t know the answer.’
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Even though the toddler was having a furious tantrum,
his mom was unfazed. ‘You may as well give up on the
crying,’ I heard her say as she led him to the store exit.
‘You’re stuck with me for 18 years.’
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Paul Newman founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for
children stricken with cancer, AIDS and blood diseases. One
afternoon he and his wife, Joanne Woodward, stopped by to have lunch
with the kids. A counselor at a nearby table, suspecting the young
patients wouldn’t know that Newman was a famous movie star, explained,
‘That’s the man who made this camp possible. Maybe you’ve seen his
picture on his salad dressing bottle?’ Blank stares. ‘Well,
you’ve probably seen his face on his lemonade carton.’

An eight-year-old girl perked up. ‘How long was he missing?’
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Like all growing boys, my teenage grandson, Jermon, was
constant ly hungry. I went to my refrigerator to find something he
might like to eat. After poking around a bit and moving the milk and
juice cartons, I spotted a bowl of leftover chili. ‘Hey, Jermon,’ I
called out excitedly. He came running into the kitchen. ‘Look!
I found some chili.’ Struggling to be polite, he said, ‘If
you’re that surprised, I’m not really sure I want it.’
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My last name is a mouthful, so when my three-year-old niece learned
to s
sorry those last few jokes didn’t fit onto the page…

The only solutions they’ve offered over the years are pills and a few tests… The tests showed sleep problems and low blood sugar but the other blood tests came back okay. The urinalysis had 4 flagged parts but the doctor didn’t say anything about it… weird.

Addiction runs in my family so I’m very against pills for that reason, and because I don’t like being dependent on any chemical. I took sleeping pills for a while but abused them, and abused benzo’s for anxiety, and stopped both. Now I take Adderall for ADD symptoms and fatigue (even though I never had attention problems as a kid) but I feel like it’s too strong and hope to get off it soon.

Anyways, the symptoms are:

-Headaches everyday, usually dull but sometimes throbbing
-Insomnia, waking up at night, sleeping in 10-14 hours if I don’t set the alarm, extreme difficulty waking up
-Fatigue; without Adderall I can barely function let alone get out of bed
-Joint pain in every joint, hypermobile joints (I’ve torn ligaments before and can bend most things very disgustingly)
-Somewhat fragile bones, I’ve broken many things from mild accidents
-Blood on the tissue when I blow my nose, and it’s been getting more frequent and more blood recently
-Difficulty concentrating (I know I’m not ADHD, it just seems that way from being so tired)
-Ear aches, hearing a whining noise all the time, constant ear infections, pretty bad hearing
-Chronic sinus infections (every time I go see the doctor) and one side of my nose has been stuffed for a long time
-Getting sick all the time… And I really mean it, my friends say “dude you’re ALWAYS sick with something”
-Heart palpitations (even when I’m not taking adderall)
-Stomach pain, and pain in other parts of the abdomen sometimes
-Blood in my stool
-I always feel like I have to pee, even after going to the bathroom
-Anxiety… but I did a pretty good job of counseling myself through this during my clonazepam withdrawals

So I went to my general practitioner a couple weeks ago, told him most of this stuff – and all he did was clean out my ears and refer me to a pediatric orthopedist… he thinks it’s strange that I have pains all over (especially my back) and hypermobility, as well as many breaks and fractures. He mentioned a few diseases that you have from birth but don’t show up until later in life, but said not to worry about it until the appointment….

The thing is, that orthopedist can definitely help with the joint stuff but EVERYTHING else will go untreated. I don’t know what kind of doctor has experience in multiple fields…… Bottom line is, I’m sick of being so sick. I want things to go back to normal, and be healthy. I eat normally, try to stay on a good sleep cycle, exercise daily, take vitamins, and do whatever I can yet it’s not too effective.

I’d also like to know if any of these symptoms could be from one thing, or just multiple coincidental things.

Sorry for the extremely long question but… this has been getting to me.

Thanks.

Please tell me what you think about my situation, do you think I should be worried about Cushing’s? Is it really possible I don’t have PCOS after a positive test? I am only 16 and I don’t feel like I should have to deal with any of this. Any comments from women with either of the possible diseases would be greatly appreciated. If you need any additional info to answer the question, just ask. Thank you!

I got all my childhood shots back when I was a baby and before preschool, but I don’t remember any of those.

When I was about 10, I got a full series of shots against hepatitis B, and when I was 14 I got a tetanus shot after an accident. I got a meningitis shot before I went to college. I got chicken pox about six months before the vaccine became available in the early 1990s, so I know I have immunity to that.

Do I need boosters for anything? My pediatric medical records were destroyed in a fire last year, and I’ve since moved 400 miles away, so I’m now under the care of a different GP.

I’m not really worried about it, but do I need an update? It must have been fifteen or twenty years since I’ve been vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, polio, and a host of other diseases.
Bob, I’ll not be having any of this antivax bullsh*t… it has been proven that vaccines are NOT toxic and that they are essential to herd immunity and preventing the spread of infectious disease. Antivax is just a load of antiscientific bollocks.
I had a TB test done when I was 16, before a school trip. It came back negative, and I have no reason to believe I’ve been exposed since then.

Some info about me:
-I’m 16, a junior in high school. I have a 3.9 I believe, with mainly accelerated courses.
-I don’t have too much money for college, so I might have to go to a community college for a while.
-I am somewhat shy and quiet, but I work at a restaurant and have been told that I am a people person. I just don’t go out of my way to be the center of attention or anything, and I get nervous speaking in front of people.
- I am interested in psychology, sociology, medicine, etc. I just don’t think I would like to be a psychologist or doctor.
- At one point, briefly, I was considering becoming a pediatric oncologist. I would love to help kids with cancer. However, I don’t think I would want to go through 12 years of school, and then always be working. I also want to have a family and kids.
- I want to do something that will help people, and hopefully make a difference in someone’s life.
-I sometimes try to put myself in another person’s shoes, to see things from their point of view.
-I think a lot about problems in the world, such as homelessness, abuse, diseases, etc. and wish I could help somehow.

Any ideas of careers that I could look into? Any websites that might help me?

The findings are the first clear evidence that an abstinence program could work.

“I think we’ve written off abstinence-only education without looking closely at the nature of the evidence,” said John B. Jemmott III, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who led the federally funded study. “Our study shows this could be one approach that could be used.”

The research, published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, comes amid intense debate over how to reduce sexual activity, pregnancies, births and sexually transmitted diseases among children and teenagers. After falling for more than a decade, the numbers of births, pregnancies and STDs among U.S. teens have begun increasing.

The Obama administration eliminated more than 0 million in annual federal funding targeted at abstinence programs after a series of reports concluded that the approach was ineffective. Instead, the White House is launching a 4 million pregnancy prevention initiative that will fund only programs that have been shown scientifically to work — a program the administration on Monday proposed expanding to 3 million.

“This new study is game-changing,” said Sarah Brown, who leads the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. “For the first time, there is strong evidence that an abstinence-only intervention can help very young teens delay sex.”

The study is the first to evaluate an abstinence program using a carefully designed approach comparing it with several alternative strategies and following subjects for an extended period of time, considered the kind of study that produces the highest level of scientific evidence.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020102628.html

I’m currently majoring in theatre. I do love acting, but the thing is that I want everything I do to be absolutely perfect and I’m always putting myself down when I think I did something wrong (which is all the time). I just got cast in a play, kind of a small part, which I’m kind of glad about since it’s my first play and I’m afriad I won’t be able to perform that well. People tell me that I’m good, but I always think I’m horrible/am comparing myself to others. My teacher even told me that I’m very engaging when I’m onstage, that I know how to get into character really well, and it seems natural. My projection isn’t as good as it could be though. Some times I don’t even want to rehearse (by myself or anything) because I know it won’t come out the way I want it to.

Anyway, I’m also REALLY into the human body and diseases. People always come to me about their symptoms. And I’m always talking about my health class. Even on breaks (at college), I go striaght to thw library so I can read a new medicinal book, lol. I suck at math and science, but I feel like I really shine when it comes to health. My family, friends, and even my doctors tell me I should be a doctor. Whenever someone’s sick, I’m always telling them about home remedies or something. Or if we’re doing an exercise in theatre, I end up thinking of something having to do with health, lol. I feel like I shine a little bit in theatre, but I’m always comparing myself and thinking of how bad this or that is, that I don’t even think about the good things that were said.

I really love both. So it’s hard to choose. How do you know what you’re meant to do? I’m sorry this was so long. Thanks for any help.
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Another thing, I have really bad ocd (especially when it comes to germs and catching diseases). That’s a bad part.

If I was a doctor, I already decided I would either be a pediatric allergist and immunologist or a child psychologist.