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I was cooking and I went to wash my hands. I turned the water on and reached for the soap. I poured the soap on my hands and to my surprise I had poured black pepper on them instead!! HAHA!
Now that is funny! Posts: 3905 | From USA | Registered: May 2007
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I stole this from one of my facebook.com groups.
you may be able to relate to some...
You might be a Lymie if...
1. You know what LLMD means, and you have one.
2. At an appointment with your LLMD the nurse has asked why you are "all dressed up" when you wore sweat pants without holes in them instead of PJs to your appointment.
3. At one time or another, you have decided that shoes with laces, socks, slippers, or flip flops are unnecessary accessories. OR 4. You have given up footwear all together and now refer to yourself as a "barefoot hippie". (Sarah!)
5. Showering is a two hour process with a three hour recovery period.
6. Some days are "shower-optional".
7. The happiest day of your life was the one when you were diagnosed with Lyme.
8. When you were diagnosed with Lyme you cried, shouted, or hugged your LLMD (which was slightly awkward for both of you).
9. They know you by name at your local ER.
10. You have more pills in your closet than a drug dealer.
11. Your pain management specialist has informed you that your regiment of painkillers should be enough to tranquilize a horse, but they have little to no effect on you.
12. You can't sleep even though you're always exhausted. See above for horse tranquilizer dilemma.
13. Whenever you have to get an IV, you try to talk the tech into using a 22 or 24 gauge needle, with varying degrees of success.
14. You have chugged prescription nausea meds straight out of the bottle with no regard whatsoever for the dose information on the front of the bottle.
15. You wear sunglasses at night, indoors, and in the rain, but not to make a statement about how cool you are.
16. "b" and "d" might as well be the same letter.
17. Similarly, enter/exit, cup/bowl, right/left are all interchangeable and you expect people to understand which one you really mean regardless of what comes out of your mouth.
18. The list of foods you CAN'T eat is longer than the list of foods you can.
19. You wanted to dress up as Lyme Disease for Halloween to raise awareness, but then you had an abdominal attack/splitting headache/inability to move/suspected failure of (insert any organ here), and ended up staying at home in bed talking to other Lymies online about how much it sucks that your bodies can't digest candy.
20. Your BMI is so low that you legally couldn't be a runway model in approximately ten countries.
21. You have mysterious bruises, despite spending the majority of your day in bed.
22. You (or your mom, dad, or caretaker) has come thisclose to having a fist-fight with a nurse or doctor who wasn't being sensitive enough to your needs.
23. You bribe your home nurses with candy so they'll show up on time and keep the poking to a minimum.
24. You cry if you have to go away for the night and realize when you get there that you forgot to pack the Glad Press 'n Seal wrap.
25. You have a PICC line, and were initially paranoid about keeping it sterile when the doctor who put it in told you a bunch of horror stories about sepsis, but now you don't even usually remember to cover in in public.
26. You are totally un-phased by people staring at you in public. You suspect it might be due to your wheelchair, PICC line, Michael Jackson style surgical mask or something, but who really knows?
27. You laugh when you and another Lymie friend simultaneously have to go to the ER, and swap amusing stories when you get back.
28. Your favorite day of the week is "dressing change day" and you (politely) demand that your nurse scratch your arm with gauze for as long as possible.
29. You have Lyme brain or brain fog, and you could explain what it was, if only you could... what was I talking about again?
30. You can't watch commercials because of the sudden changes in light and noise, and you think that sort of thing should probably be illegal.
31. You carry around an icepack for your head.
32. Your friends no longer think its odd for you to randomly burst out laughing and/or sobbing.
33. You may or may not have punched through a wall, torn your hair out, or banged your head against the floor.
34. You don't need to wear make up on Halloween because you already look like a zombie.
35. Maps don't have meaning. The world is directionless.
36. Your phone contacts include your insurance company... who you grace with your frequent screams and frustrations.
37. You've also devised tricks to scam your insurance company to pay for rejected medications.
38. When the receptionist at your LLMD said you needed to make an appointment for the week after Thanksgiving, you looked blankly from her to your day-planner and back again and said "I'm sorry, you're going to have to be more specific. Can you point to it?"
39. You become accustomed to peeing efforts equal to women pushing out babies.
40. Your PCP & LLMD is programmed in your phone and under recent calls all too often.
41. You put the phone in the fridge and don't even wonder why the fridge is ringing.
42. You put the toilet paper with the paper towels while unpacking groceries, and guests become used to it.
43. You put your shirt on backward - more than once - get out and about, don't realize it, and when it's pointed out, you don't really care.
44. Local hospital radiologists know you so well they give you first priority in the waiting room cause they wanna hear the next Lyme brain story!
45. Your doctor asks you as a test, if today you know who the president is and you answer...``His name is something like ...a tree?`` and he tells you ``It's Bush'' and you're proud cause you were close THIS time!
46. You go in one room three times in a row looking for your shoes, only to find out from your five year old sister that they're on your feet.
47. You get all the way to the car from your house, have nothing on your feet and it's fifty degrees out.
48. Your new nickname becomes 'Spacie' (or some variation on it) and you agree with it.
49. Your nurse gives you her personal cell number, and calls you just to chit chat.
50. You look forward to having wheel chair races with the next person up to the challenge!
51. People tell you you've been speaking in Spanish, and you didn't know it!
52. Your doctor tells you to" lean back" and you do a back bend then realizing (after he flew out of his chair to catch you ) he meant on the exam table (possibly resulting in the doctor's hair graying prematurely).
53. Your sister goes to get her picture taken and someone says ``say cheese'' but she says `` LYME DISEASE!'' instead.
54. You depend on your five year old sister to be your Black Berry.
-------------------- "So I decided to tell my neurologist everything I felt. I said, "I can't think straight, my neck hurts, my muscles are weak, I'm nauseous, I have vision problems....." My doctor's response: "Sounds like Glaucoma." Un/misdiagnosed 15 years. Dx 12/07 Posts: 11 | From USA | Registered: Jun 2008
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