Maladies and allergies.

Trying to organize and remember all this stuff...

Mental:

 

Age 12: Shows signs of melancholia and unnecessary anxieties. Begins counseling and medications. Hospitalized for self-mutilation, suicidal ideation, and fits.

 

Age 13: Patient leaves in-patient program after seven days. Is in out-patient program for one month. Medications are tried out.

 

Age 14: Patient learns to keep her mouth shut to avoid probing, spilling, and poking.

 

Age 16: Signs of self-mutilation re-occur. Evidence of depression, anxiety, and insomnia.

 

Age 17: Mental upheaval when close friend of patient unexpectedly commits suicide.

 

Age 18: Mutilation becomes more frequent and severe. Insomnia worsens. Depression worsens. Anxiety worsens. Manic states begin to become present. Patient is diagnosed as bipolar.

 

 

Physical:

 

Ages 12-14: Slightly overweight and lethargic but otherwise in good health.

 

Age 15: Symptoms of severe fatigue, sore lymph nodes, general aches. Diagnosed with mononucleosis. Due to enlarged spleen pressing upon the stomach as a side effect of the mononucleosis, patient loses almost twenty-five pounds. Any more weight loss could be dangerous.

 

Ages 15 through 18 since the events all seem to blur together: Diagnosed with mononucleosis for a second time. Immune system destroyed. One summer day, patient wakes up violently ill and passing out and goes to emergency room for two days of hydration; receives six liters of fluid and berium-no cause of illness found other than a high white blood cell count. Patient contracts pneumonia. Patient contracts pneumonia again two years later. Patient has a few kidney infections, probably due to bladder infections, probably due to such a weakened immune system. Allergies test is conducted on patient; not only is the patient allergic to dust, mold, dander, grass, weeds, trees, and pollen, but also has nasal bones twice the normal size, congesting her nasal airways; patient receives surgery the day after Christmas and has bones sanded down. Constant colds and sinus infections. Allergic reaction to antibiotic, likely amoxycillyn-patient breaks out in hives. Patient diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyalgia and insomnia. Patient diagnosed with Herpes Number Six, likely received from chicken pox as a child, and has been internally battling this infection for years. Antivirals and sleep aids are started. Signs of TMJ.

 

By the way, the patient is me.