A Sickness

Have someone from you a sickness?

I want to know because I'm sad.I have a very bad sickness and my friend dupe me all the time.

I have Coeliac.I'm very sad

You?

Illness runs in my family sadly :/

Me -

I have temporal lobe epilepsy, I have seizures where I completely lose focus of where I am or what I was doing. At the height of the worst parts, I was forgetting things like how to turn on the dishwasher, or how to spell words.

I've had every possible test going, I've 2 CT scans, 4 MRI scans, 1 SPECT scan, 1 PET scan and I've had bloods taken from me a lot of times.

I take medication daily, in total 6 tablets per day and a cause of the epilepsy has given me an in-balance of vitamins.

My sister -

In 2003 at the age of 18 my sister had a heart attack and was diagnosed with Dilated Cardiomyopathy, which is a condition where her heart becomes weakened and enlarged and can't pump blood around her body normally, causing tiredness and general sickness. She can't walk upstairs or even less than 20 steps before coming out of breathe and at night-time she has to sleep with an oxygen mask on to help her breathing.

Last year in February she sadly suffered another illness, where on a Saturday evening her left face dropped and she suffered a stroke. A stroke is an attack to the brain. In the last year she has also had 3 TIAs, known as a Transient Ischemic Attack - which is basically a mini-stroke causing numbness in arms and hands, slurred speech, confusion etc.

In the last few weeks it's been in discussion that she may be fitted with a pacemaker or another implant similar to a defibrillator inside the heart to keep the muscle 'alive'