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  • your biggest health scare.. how did you deal?

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    11.19.09, 02:20 PM Flag ]

    • Not mine, but DH's malignant melanoma when DC was 20 m/o. Life revolved around getting DH through treatment with minimal disruption to DB's life. Thankfully, she has 4 wonderful grandparents who were willing and able to take her for days at a time on no notice. There were a lot of tears and a lot of prayers. 4 years later, he's cancer free, but I am a nightmare about sunscreen on DD - she's as fair-skinned as he is.

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      11.19.09, 03:16 PM Flag

    • HPV - it freaked the shit out of me to have an STD

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      11.19.09, 03:17 PM Flag

      • Prior to marriage?

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        11.19.09, 03:42 PM Flag

        • yes

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          11.19.09, 03:50 PM Flag

          • Me too...DH was my first. Got it from him, we split for awhile, but just felt like it wasn't fair to date anyone else after being tainted.

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            11.19.09, 04:25 PM Flag

            • Up to 50% of women will get this at some point in their life. I hardly consider it "tainted."

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              11.24.09, 05:07 PM Flag

      • ditto

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        11.24.09, 05:05 PM Flag

    • Hep C. Turned out to be a false positive.

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      11.19.09, 03:20 PM Flag

    • GD that OB thought was pre-existing type 2 as numbers at 3 hour glucose were SO elevated. Turned out there'd been a lab error; I didn't have GD, let alone type 2 diabetes. 6 weeks of hell.

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      11.19.09, 03:28 PM Flag

    • I have been relatively healthy. However, I have dealt with my father having been on life support for 12 years, with the first full year in the hospital and regular long stints thereafter. As well as 1 full year of my little brother in intensive care before dying. I become super vigilant, organized and in charge. I'm definitely someone you want on your team in a crisis. It will be interesting to see how I handle it when it's my own illness.

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      11.19.09, 04:24 PM Flag

    • mild-moderate scoliosis, malignant melanoma and HPV. Scoliosis never required surgery/brace, melanoma was caught early and HPV has been kept in check ( by the way, about 40% of the population is estimated to have HPV). I have always felt very fortunate!

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      11.19.09, 04:45 PM Flag

      • pheochromocytoma...thank GOD it was just a scare.

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        11.19.09, 05:51 PM Flag

        • Stage 3 breast cancer-- after being super on top of mammos since I was 35.

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          11.24.09, 04:36 PM Flag

          • OMG - you were on top of mammos and still had stage 3? Are you OK? I'm totally worried about this. Any advice of what you might have done differently?

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            11.24.09, 04:50 PM Flag

            • I would've insisted on ultra sounds for my dense breasts. And I AM fine-- but mammos really don't work for woman w dense breasts. I thought I was being pro active!

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              11.26.09, 10:02 AM Flag

        • pheo mom-are you still on?

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          11.24.09, 05:09 PM Flag

    • I had breast cancer in early 30s. No fam history. Stage 1 but still live in fear of it coming back and have had a few scares related to that over the years. I also have HPV . That is so nothing to be afraid about . Don't 80% of women have it?

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      11.24.09, 04:59 PM Flag

      • pheo mom-you still on?

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        11.24.09, 05:09 PM Flag

        • yeah, I'm still here...i didn't actually have a pheo, but I did have butt loads of tests and it was a very scary time...

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          11.24.09, 05:29 PM Flag

    • my son has cancer. diagnosed 1.5 months ago.

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      11.24.09, 05:11 PM Flag

      • oh my gosh -- i am so sorry you're all going through this.

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        11.24.09, 05:22 PM Flag

      • Your post made me stop. I am so sorry. How old? Really I wish you the very best and hope things get better. Will he be ok?

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        11.24.09, 05:40 PM Flag

    • MS at age 27. 33 now. DD is 3.5 yrs. Rushed a pregnancy. Now I have beautiful, lovely little girl and I don't have any symptoms at all. Guess everything happens for a reason.

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      11.24.09, 05:34 PM Flag
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