Had a disease/injury and failed to realize that you had it?

[Royd]

I don't know if it's getting older, or just that I've banged myself up so much, that I don't even notice, anymore...The other day, I was tearing down an old wood ceiling...In the process, either a board or the crowbar hit me in the shin...I paid it no mind...I get home, take off my boots, prop my feet on the desk and pull up my pant legs...There's a huge hematoma on my shin...I go, "What the ----" It took me a minute to figure it out.

 

[welsummerchicks]

thanks, LOL.

Take the training. You may have a chance of making more money. With the more money, you can buy more chickens, eggs, coops or colugas.

Or you can buy what I bought. An array of desk/office toys that are so absorbing and peculiar, that people completely forget the question they came in with that meant you doing extra work.

Aside from that, there is nothing so fine as a database for making someone else look like a monkey. And the more training you get, the more likely you are to recognize the point at which you are free to internally exult with, 'Colobus Monkey! Spider Monkey! Capucin Monkey!'

Illigitimus non carborundum (don't let the b's wear you down).

 

[noodleroo]

I confused my hyper thyroid symptoms with heart trouble. My test showed the second highest reading the radiologist had ever seen. I skipped right over the 'weight loss' symptoms and went directly to near heart failure. They killed it with radiation and I take a pill every day...for the rest of my life....(sigh)...

 

[Stacykins]

I have a defect in my mitral valve. It got me kicked out of Army ROTC after 3 years

 

[Gold Griffin Chicken Mom]

A lady at church had such terrible knee pain that her doc was doing the work up to replace both knees. Then the doctor noticed Betty had a heart problem. Betty was given some medication to treat the heart problem. Her knees stopped hurting. She still hasn't had the replacements. Betty says "God made my knees hurt because I couldn't ignore THAT!"

I have apparently had asthma my whole life. Never could figure out why others could do the same things as me and not be winded. I decided sports were not my thing. When I would have shortness of breath, I'd stop or slow down. I workd as a Public Works painter at a Navy shipyard for four years. I always passed my physicals, even the lung tests.

Fast forward about a dozen years. I've got a mystery allergen at sets me off. Got to be something I eat. I finally went to an allergist. "Did you know you have asthma?". Nope. Not a clue. Still haven't figured out the evil mystery food (other than shrimp hates me and makes my lips tingle!) but I watch better for asthma symptoms and treat them as needed. My chronic sinus infections seem to be gone. All in all, I do pretty good these days. I'm not ashamed to say I'm tired and ready for a nap. My children are old enough to entertain themselves and not burn down the house while I'm resting. And as long as they get their food on time, the chickens don't care if I don't spend all day outside with them.

 

[ranchhand]

Not very dramatic, but I spent 3 days drinking large amounts of cranberry juice, ACV and water, thinking the pain in my left back was a kidney infection. Didn't have a doctor, much less insurance.
One day I stood up from my dispatch desk and darn near fainted from the pain. The dispatcher went to the co. owner and said send her home, get her out of here. (he's a weenie) So I went home and had a couple hour lie-down. BF gets home, takes one look and drags me to the ER.

After 3 days, the mystery is solved! 2 broken ribs grating on each other.

I should mention that though I am allergic to doctors in general, there are times when you really must go. Those ribs kept me from coughing and resulted in my getting pneumonia. Which forced me to cough, and cracked the healing ribs all over again!

Similar thing happened when I broke my arm.... I put it off, and ended up spending 8 weeks in a cast, when 4 would normally do. Nobody has found a cure for the "rockhead" yet.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

OK ready?

Broke my thumb, my nose, one finger and my heel. All different times (nose more than once) never knew about ANY of them until well after the fact. Heel I finally had to go to doctor for, thought it was tendonitis or something. Nope it was broken.

The only time I thought I broke a bone and went for help for it I did not have a broken bone - my lung had collapsed....


(BTW this was my cue to get into a safer line of work.....)



The biggie - had trouble breathing when I was preggers. Really struggling and had what I thought was horrible heart burn. Nope I was having a heart attack. Go figure. If I had not been preggers I never would have gone to a doctor for heartburn.

 

[key west chick]

My dad fell off a horse and broke his collar bone. He thought he just had the wind knocked out of him. Never knew until many, many, years later he went to the Mayo clinic for a major check up and they found the healed break.

 

[HarlansHollowFarms]

For many years Drs tryed to convince me I was depressed....I knew I was not, I am usually smiling!!!

I was diagnosed in 1995 with MS....not depression!

 

[classicsredone]

My mom has this funky, Victorian-looking, floral couch with claw feet. When I was in junior high and high school, I accidentally whacked my toes on that couch so many times. When I was sixteen, I cracked my pinky toe on it. I assumed it was just a bad sprain or bruise, and went on with life. It was sore, but not that bad. I had creek clean up duty that day, so I pulled on my boots and went to work. Slowly the toe got more painful, but it didn't feel broken. (I've broken a lot of bones...the feeling is unique.) By the time three weeks had gone by, I was awake at night because even a sheet over the foot was excruciating. I finally got in to see my doctor, and it turns out I had a break all the way through, with a little chip of bone as well. No wonder the danged thing hurt!