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hi

my name is margaret 36yo, i live in michigan, married 17years to my

highschool sweetheart. i have 3 girls 17, 12, 10. currently unemployed due

to med problems. i have had fms for at least 12 years probably my whole

life, but it took a freezer door at a grocery store to set the fms into

full force flareups. i have many other med problems...colitis, high blood

pressure, high cholestral, RSD, Raynaud's, GERD, RSL, MPS, arthritis, going

thru menopause thanks to endometrosis, Morton's neuroma, hypothryoidism,

migranes, pitting edema, degenerative disk disease, bilateral spondylolysis

at L5, spondylolisthesis at L5-S1, spinous process is fractured in 2 places

at L5-S1, hemangioma at T10, bulging intervertebral disk L5-S1...neurogenic

bladder from nerve damage at L5-S1...just to name a few lololololol

all the problems in my spine at L5-S1 is caused from 144 lb of frozen

french fries falling onto my back at work last year february...this coming

monday i am going into the hospital for a biopsy an pyelogram on my

bladder(hey it will be my 25th surgery)..going to check to see if some

" spots " the urologist saw last week is cancer or not...im hoping at best

that it is only interstitial cystitis...and sometime this summer i will

have to have a spinal fusion for the 2 fractures in my spine...3 months in

a clamshell body cast afterwards oh boy i'll be a happy camper this summer!!!

the only saving grace in all of this is that my neurosurgeon finally

FINALLY gave me some vicodin for the pain...without that i probably would

be in bed 24/7...right now im barely mobile..walk with a cane and doc is

pushing for a walker...and my husband who has been a saint thru out my med

downfall...he is the best!!

margaret