Re: Cheating Destiny (book excerpt)
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Posted by Sarah on 13:54:23 2006/07/11
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Re: Cheating Destiny (book excerpt) posted by klausen
I totally agree. I personally wish my parents had thought of all this before they had me, and regularly tell them that I hate them for having me and that they were selfish. They even admit they were wrong. They should have either aborted me when my mom started to miscarry or let me die(palliative care) when I developed Type 1 at age 2.
I ironically am also NOT clinically depressed (as assessed by a psychologist whom I went to see to rule out depression as I was contemplating death due to how ill I physically felt from having this disease for so long) and also feel that people like to have their heads in the sand, if you will.
I continuously am developing more and more autoimmune diseases and am sick of feeling sick. I am 24 but I feel 90. Every day I wake up hoping I will feel better, but of course I do not. I cannot work full-time and it takes me 3 days of resting to go out with my friends. I do not mind the needles, jabs, or infusion sites as I am used to them now, but rather the fact that I invest so much time and effort into simply staying alive and have little improvement (if not a decrease) in my health.
If you are going to have kids, make sure you make enough money to support them 100% if they are too ill to work as adults.
It's not that I don't WANT to enjoy life. I'm attractive, intelligent, sociable with many friends, and have a good sense of humour, believe it or not. It's just that I got a taste of life, and am now too sick to do the things I once did, and it's not going to improve unless a miraculous cure for autoimmunity is found tomorrow. Anyone who would contemplate doing this to their child does not deserve to be a parent.
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