Medical Stuffs

1. What medical issues have you had to deal with throughout your life?

I've been blessed my whole life to have an extremely healthy body. Of course there's always the random colds, the flu, strep throat a few times. Other than that, I went through most of my life pretty normal.

The one medical "issue", per say, that I can think of is that every spring/early summer, my skin likes to think it's allergic to the sun. Yes, you read that right. The grey of winter gives my skin sun amnesia, and it forgets how to handle direct sunlight for a while. I get a rash, I'm more hot than normal, I get a little itchy... it's no fun. But it's not something that really affects how I live or my quality of life. 

There was a time at the beginning of my senior year that I was stressed to the max- I was drum major in the marching band, taught I think 7 piano students, and Dad was in the hospital for a little over a week after anesthesia for a routine surgery shut down his digestive system. It was a rough month for all of us, and my body reacted by giving me sharp pains in my stomach and under my ribs sometimes when I would breathe. My doctor couldn't find a reason for it, so he sent me in for a CT scan, and they thought I might have pericardial effusion or ovarian cysts, but the ultrasounds came up negative. Eventually my doctor said it was probably just how my body reacts to extreme stress, which makes sense now. 

When I was pregnant with Jasmine, the first few months made me just really tired, and at my first doctors appointment around 10 weeks, I told the doctor very happily that I didn't have morning sickness, thank goodness. Well, I totally jinxed myself. The next month consisted of me puking literally everything I tried to eat or drink, even water. There was one night that I threw up so many times that my throat felt like it was on fire and I could even feel the burn in my nose. I rocked back and forth and cried to Ethan saying, "Why does it hurt so bad?" Luckily Ethan took incredible care of me, and even made me a little bed on the bathroom floor so I could sleep by the toilet if I didn't think I could handle being further away than a few feet. After way too many weeks of that, Ethan called my doctor and she prescribed an anti-nausea medication that made it so I could eat almost anything! Modern medicine is so amazing.