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January 18, 2005

Maybe it's time for me to introduce myself. My name is Donna, I live in

Ellensburg, WA. I'm a single parent with multiple health related issues. i

joined this group upon the recommendation of a member of another group to

which I belong. I live in subsidized housing and my tenancy here is

tenuous at best.

Sometimes I get in the car to go some place and start driving down the road

then I can't remember where it was I meant to go. I have chronic fatigue,

chronic headaches, brain fog or mental fatigue, I have chronic muscle and

joint pain and stiffiness. I have a hard time standing from a sitting

position and even sitting is more like a flop. Three years ago, I developed

a cough. Over a two month period, I was on three different antibiotics. My

doctor was puzzled because nothing showed up on xray. Anything he tried to

treat me with did not help relieve the symptoms. After trying for a year,

he referred me to a pulmonologist. After 2 CT scans a year apart, a

bronchoscopy, and numerous tubes of blood, he came up with a diagnosis of

bronchiolitis last fall.

I've been evicted once and if I were to get evicted from here, there would

be no place in town that I could move to.

I have a really hard time reading really long emails and understanding what

they are saying. If I don't write something down, I'll forget it.

To think that at one time i was an honor student.

Donna

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