In which I am politely enraged
And yet another email from a well-meaning stranger who insists that if only I would stop all my medications and eat certain foods for the rest of my life, I would be completely healed and all my disabilities would vanish. Ah, willful ignorance, my nemesis, we meet again
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No food or combination of foods can cure medical conditions that began with brain damage from birth.
Did you get them at birth...? Or during birth? Or did it just happen as you developed? Did something happen?
I apologize if I'm being intrusive... I'm both interested in medicine (vaguely) and have a thirst for knowledge. ^^;
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It is suspected that the damage began during my very premature birth, then continued in the days and weeks after my birth. My lungs collapsed several times, particularly my right lung. At that point in 1979, there was no surfactant to replace the natural compounds that would have surrounded and protected my lungs, since I was born so early in gestation. So the lack of oxygen destroyed certain brain cells and damaged other parts of my brain, resulting in white matter death, or periventricular leukomalacia. I was in respiratory distress quite often since my lungs were underdeveloped. My brain never fully developed, resulting in cerebral palsy and other damages.
Feel free to do some research and ask more questions! I love questions.
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Still, all of that's very interesting. ^_^
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