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I'd Have To Get Better To Die

Over the course of my almost three decades on this planet, I have been called many things.  Healthy has rarely been one of them.  Being ill and/or injured has been such a large part of my life no one who knows me is even surprised anymore when my immune system decides to fuck me over.  In fact, my pediatrician congratulated me the first time I went six months between doctors visits.  I was fifteen.  As a child, it was downright awful and I still come with a list of allergies, sensitivities, and drug interactions a mile long.  Like millions of other Americans, I suffer from chronic illness.  I’m going to try to briefly describe my various maladies and how they affect my life here.      As a tiny person, I had RSV and Hand, Foot, and Mouth (H, F,+M) before the age of two.  During the RSV, my fever ran so high that I have permanent lines on the adult teeth that were developing at the time.  I ended up on breathing ...