Hi everyone I decided to come back and blog, Some of you may not have seen any of my blogs I don't know that I have written one in over a year, but I used to be quite active on this site. I quit blogging however because the site was becoming one big dietthon. Everyone was giving diet updates or weighloss updates and the medicine ( the reason I came to this site) was lost....

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On May 6th wishbone day is being celebrated internationally. Wishbone day is an international celebration of awareness for Osteogenesis Imperfecta.  I ask that everyone wear yellow in celebration of wishbone day on may 6th. It will help bring research to Osteogenesis Imperfecta, and maybe a much needed cure. Thanks a billion! Brianna

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My friend sara was in a severe car accident and had to be airlifted to Hennepin County Medical Center here in Minnesota.  She is in severe condition and in the ICU. She has multiple broken bones and a collapsed lung.  She just started to breathe on her own last night.  I ask that you please pray or at least keep her in your thoughts. I know you have never met her, but she means a...

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Today I am meeting with an orthopedist who specializes who in the ankles and feet.  The appointment today is to decide what needs to be done about my ankles. Both are extremely unstable and when I try to walk they collapse out to the side. My profile picture is of one of the two AFO's or Ankle foot orthotics that I wear each day from the time that I get up to the time I...

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So today while everyone else is celebrating Valentines day, I am celebrating HEART day!! Today all around the world Children with Congenital Heart Defects and their parents are celebrating Heart day. The day when we celebrate the triumph of life, with congenital heart defects, and morn those who lost their lives to them. Heart day means something special to all of us, and we all have own stories. Mine goes something like this. When I...

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Hey guys! SO I am taking a class in Biblio/Poetry therapy... Has anyone heard about this? Does anyone have any experience with it? Brianna

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Hey everyone! So It's a new start for me! I am starting a new semester at school and have some medically related classes finally!!! I am really excited about that!! However along with the start of every semester comes having to explain to Professors and classmates a like about my disability, and this is hard.  How do you explain that your bones are like glass? That your retinas could detach at any moment? That your...

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Hey everyone! So I finally have a diagnosis for my breathing problems, they are caused by Multiple Sclerosis.  I am in a children's hospital now and will be meeting with specialists on tuesday.  Brianna

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Hey Everyone! So I know its been a few weeks since I have been on, but I've been really busy with school and dr.'s appoinments and speech therapy. A few weeks ago I told you guys about the problems I was having with breathing. They at first thought it was my asthma, and then conceeded that it might be congestive heart failure or a pulmonary embolism and then when those tests came back negative said...

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hey everyone... So I still am having breathing problems.  My doc thought it might have been my asthma and VCD in the beginning but that was 2 weeks ago and now I am not so sure. My oxygen stat is still down, it is at 95. Which I know isn't really that bad, but for me its horrible because I have never been below 100 in my life except when I was in congestive heart...

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So my doctor thinks that on top of my asthma I also have either a Pulmonary Embolis or am in Congestive Heart Failure. I had an echo done today to rule out CHF and then blood drawn to rule out the Embolis. I should know the results tomorrow! Brianna

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So I spent my weekend at the hospital. On friday I had to take my cousin to the ER for a severe asthma attack. Both our asthma's are exteremly bad right now, and our doctors are blaming it on the time of year. She was there for a couple of hours and then I took her home. Saturday night I ended up in the ER, so tight that you couldn't even hear me wheezing because...

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Ok, So I know everyone is probably sick of hearing about Vitamin D because its everywhere, but here is my plug to for everyone to get there levels checked and keep getting them checked!! As many of you know I have had problems with Vitamin D for years. I have been on and off of supplementation for years to try and correct the deficiency, and help out my poor bones that already have a hard...

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I hate asthma at times!!! I hate being robbed of the ability to breath. I am on albuterol, Atrovent, Symbicort, Prednisone, and an antibiotic and I still can barely breathe.  UGGG!!! This sucks majorly! The only upside is that I have semi-kept my voice because the major thing that was causing me to loose my voice was my vocal cord dysfunction and I know how to control that now! Still they both suck and when...

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Hey fellow Doctors friends! So as you probably know vitamin D has blown up in the last year or so.  It has become the Vitamin Dejure, and for good reason. It is a vitamin that our bodies really need, and so many of don't have enough of. Vitamin D is something that everyone really needs! I really want to stress this because I have a lot of experience with it and with improper levels and...

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Hey fellow doctors fans! I know I haven't been on for about a week or so, but things have been extremely busy.  Last sunday my cast was bugging me so I went and got it taken off and there was a huge red spot under the cast. Unluckily for me the person casting that day wasn't a cast tech she was an athletic trainer, so she just dressed the red spot and put on a...

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Hey everyone~! I am going back to the orthopedist today. I will get my cast off get the blisters it has caused treated (that's right blisters! Let's hope I don't get infections from these ones!) anyways I will get new x-rays and then my doctor will decide if I need another cast or if I can switch to a walking boot. Either way I will get something more stable than this cast. Cross your fingers...

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I got a 35 on my MCAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Super SUPER excited!!!! The test is scored out of a 45, but a score from 27 on up pretty much guarantees  you a place in med school!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) So I am still going retake the test to see if I can get a higher score yet, but I am glad to know that I can get in. Brianna

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hey everyone, I was going down a set of steps on tuesday and rolled my ankle. It wasn't bad but apparently that simple roll was bad enough to break my ankle. I am in a cast now, for at least two weeks.  :(

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So normally I don't get into any of this political stuff.... but I was extremly happy to hear last week that part of President Obama's bill went into effect and now there can be no cap on health insurance ever and that there can no longer be any pre existing conditions. Also that children are covered until 26 on there parents insurance plans. This is all amazing news for me as, I was comming up...

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