Comments on: A Year In The Life Of Kicking Pernicious Anemia’s Ass…..

By: mjk

mjk — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:49:23 +0000

my son was diagnosed with pernicious anemia about 4-5 years ago. he was only 8. it took riley doctors eight to nine months to figure out what was wrong with him. They weren’t looking for it since it is more an older person’s disease or genetic that you have at birth. after 5 units of blook, his hemoglobin was down to 3.4 at one point. many scary days of me thinking i was going to lose him. they finally figured out what he had. it is so rare in children that riley didn’t even do the test for diagnoses. we had to go to iu hospital where they don’t treat children. now he is a totally healthy 13 year old. he has to take a b12 nose spray once and week (nascobal) and is totally sypmtom free. a very far cry from the child who had cold syptoms one week and basically had a stroke waiting for the doctor to admit him to the hospital the next. due to a lack of blood production.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:29:59 +0000

Yay for getting through this year, and kicking ass doing it!!! Couldn’t stop laughing over Studio Club 161, and can’t wait to make more road trip memories here soon!

By: Anice McNamee

Anice McNamee — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:22:45 +0000

Congratulations Crissy! Sometimes we need bad things..really BAD things to happen to us for us to be able to find the strength from inside us that we didn’t even know we had! I was diagnoised with Epilepsy 8 years ago and then MS 5 years ago (the E was because of the MS just didn’t know then!!) and I went from working as a Manager in a Blue chip company to starting my own craft design company..it was the best thing I ever did! (Injections in the stomach are a pain..mine are 3 times a week Yeah!!) Keep being positive it helps us all.
Anice xx