Introduction

 Hello readers,

I don’t know if this will reach anyone, I’m hoping it does. I’ve decided to make this blog mainly for a space that I can go to share the strange things that are happening with me medically and to maybe get the word out that the medical field is really a giant question mark and that doctors don’t always know the answers. 

Now, before you say to yourself…oh this lady is a nutcase and is anti-vaccination and just getting up on her soapbox to preach holistic mumbo-jumbo. No, that’s not the case here at all. I believe that holistic medicine can be helpful in some situations, but I also believe that it’s important to protect oneself and get vaccinated. Though I want to say right here, right now that I’m not trying to convince anyone to do anything that they don’t want to. I’m just a middle aged gal trying to make it through this lifetime I have and get answers to the millions of questions that I have for the unknown number of doctors I’ve seen in my lifetime. But alas, I won’t get all the answers to my questions and I have to live with that. Why?…you may ask… because I’m a woman and the medical field has yet to do the proper research on medicine and the female body. 

Maybe by being here we can help one another out and share our experiences and pass our knowledge on so that the next person doesn’t have to suffer as long or will learn something so that they can start to ask questions that they wouldn’t have otherwise thought of themselves to their own doctors. If at least one person can get something out of this, well then, I think that my purpose has been served. 

Hi, my name is Jessica. I’m a 40 year old woman who has a pretty normal daily life. I’m married, have a very loving husband, I go to work just like everyone else, and I enjoy my very simple life. Things that aren’t so “normal”…my mother-in-law lives with us, I’m childless by choice, I’m 6’0” who loves to crochet/cross stitch, and I’m obsessed with everything true crime related. I’ll take a few of the burning questions you might have for me off the table for you. 1: No, I didn’t play basketball in school… I tried out in eighth grade, but according to the coach “you’re not aggressive enough”. They hit the nail on the head with that statement, I’m the least aggressive person ever. It drives my husband crazy that I don’t show my anger. 2: The weather is the same for you as it is for me, height doesn’t make a difference. 3: Just because I’m tall doesn’t mean I can reach everything…you might actually have to ask a worker to do their job. 4: I’m just like everyone else in the world trying to make it through each day with one foot in front of the other. So, now that I’ve gotten that out of the way… onto why I came here. My medical anomalies that have caused my doctors to scratch their heads and say “hmm, you’re too young for that” or my favorite “that’s odd”. 

I’m trying to figure out when things started to go “wrong” for me medically. I guess it depends really… according to my parents, I didn’t talk until I was three. I used to burn my hands on things and not cry over it, like the time I climbed up onto the entertainment center to get a toy and the television fell on my leg and I came out of that with just a permanent dent in my right leg. If I look back at pictures of me around the age of three, I looked like I was at the height of a six or seven year old! A real André the giant situation going on…by the time I was in kindergarten, I was about the height of a nine year old. There’s a picture of me going down the metal slide in kindergarten and my legs were almost half of the way down it even though I was at the top of it. By the time I was in sixth grade (about age eleven) I was at 6’0” and taller than everyone…even some of my teachers. So was my freakish height the start of my demise? No one knows, but I believe it definitely contributes to some of my medical problems. Of course no one would ever admit to that when it came to my doctors because they simply don’t know and heaven forbid they actually admit to not knowing something (eye roll). 

Anyway, let me know what you think about this so far. I’m in no way a writer and I won’t admit to being a good storyteller, but is this worth reading? Am I completely wasting my time here? I’m curious about your thoughts on this so far. I’ll continue my stories and thoughts in hopes to get to the bottom of things. 

Thank you for those who have read this blog so far, feel free to share your thoughts/opinions. Please, try to keep the negative comments to a minimum. I am open to constructive criticism. I’m 100% new to this and want to keep things from getting mean or hurtful. Stay tuned for my next entry! 

Jessica