RE: They call us warriors but I am the most feeble-bodied fighter around
The process of sickness begins even while the child is developing in their mother's womb in some cases such as mine because my mother had told me while I am still in her womb I am not moving as much like my brothers do when she is pregnant with them so she thought that I was finally a girl which they are trying to have.
At one year old of age I brought to the hospital in the city and had one bag of blood infused to me because I think that blood tests revealed that I was anemic, the reason that I was broth to hospital as advised by our senior neighbor because he noticed that I was crying all day and maybe all night and cannot be pacified by mother which is already tired dancing with me in her arms but to no avail.
No wonder I can't sleep and crying non-stop because I am already suffering from one hallmark symptom of brewing Kidney disease process which later revealed to be an autoimmune origin which means many immune cells sticking to the filter in my kidneys and forming scars until the Kidney function ceased. Years prior to that I suffered weakness, headaches, chronic fatigue syndrome, flank or pain on my loins, Recurring fever every two weeks for years 1992-94, I need to use an antibiotic, Nephritic (tea colored pee caused by blood seepage) to nephrotic syndrome (Edema of face and lower legs up to thigh legs in later stages) and then Kidney failure.
I am just describing my case of being sick right before I was born but most of us now living in this dangerous world, we are facing contamination of even non-processed foods like for example fish caught at sea based on the age and size of the fish alone has lots of Mercury, enough to affect the development of the baby of conceiving mothers so they are advised not to consume much fish caught at sea while farmed fish are fed with feeds with harmful to the consumers.
So even if we trying to be healthy, the presence of "forever chemicals" can harm us as the so called PFAS and some of its variants and its current alternatives accumulates in all human and animal bodies and in the long term based on exposure will eventually poison us, enough to give us certain diseases causing death.
Unfortunately PFAS and its variants are widely used in our everyday lives, in our gadgets, appliances, food containers, not to mention non-stick pans, fire fighting equipment and chemicals to fight fire etc.
I mean, the least we can do is to watch out what we eat, I might getting poisoned by Moringa powder for all I know but we just have to have awareness for of everything so that at least it will make a difference particularly in our health. Miss @wakeupkity
Some children are already ill in the womb but it's rarely caused by a lack of the mother unless she has a serious infection or has a very unhealthy lifestyle.
I was born a month early and cried day and night. No way my mother tried to keep me silent. I could also not eat, but she shoved me in the bathroom, trying not to hear me. I ended up in the hospital for a very long time as a few months old.
I have been a test rabbit for many years in hospitals, with numerous doctors and never felt healthy or rested, and my skin smelled like a pharmacy. So, years ago, I decided to stop with all the nonsense and take medication. I already gave up on the doctor visits. The specialists said I cannot do it and my kidneys and organs would give up on me. So I said: If that happens, it's fine. If I die, I die.
I didn't die, and a few times per year I have hard moments, but somehow I still survive. I believe a strong will keeps me alive,e and I never had that much energy as I was a child. So I truly believe they kept me sick; it's the same with all the injections. I learned that most doctors have zero interest and the best doctor and person who knows how your body responds is me (and it's you).
I will no longer check since no point in it, and I believe I am like my grandmother. You know she was already on her deathbed when I was 7 years old. She had a rare blood disease similar to haemophilia, nevertheless she reached a high age although her kidneys and many organs gave up on her. Perhaps it is character or the fact that she survived the Japanese concentration camp, or had children or was simply a fighter, although very realistic.
We are never sure what causes certain diseases. I also don't believe boys are more active in the womb than girls are. Children are different and they also respond on the mood of the mother and the sounds they hear. Some children of drug addicts are healthy while others of healthy living parents are ill.
I believe we will never find out what caused it and can only guess. It would be good if we all live a healthy life but the fact is that if I look back with us healthy food always been expensive. Fruits, meat, fish, dairies. It's kind of strange since we have it all but for at least the past 40 years the government wants us to stop eating it. For sure this also causes many health issues which we frequently notice when people get older since the lack of nearly every vitamin and mineral doesn't always show immediately.
The nose bleeding sounds familiar. I had them for many years and as a child I could barely arrive at school or back home before the next one started. The only plus is that I feel it if the bleeding starts even if it's not noticed and it's not as bad as when I was a 5 or 6 year old.
Today I am sure the doctors and all tests and medication made me sick.
Friend, did you notice I started being a witness? I hope you will vote for me. I like to promote commenting and engagement.
The witness name is @wakucat. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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It broke my heart to learn that you had a bad time when you are still just few months old and then later on the succeeding years because of your medical condition, was it the Hemophilia?
I empathize with you because it is hard to treat as it is genetic and hereditary, no wonder you visited hospitals frequently in the past. But be brave because I believe that you have your own way of dealing with it but I will do pray for your condition, I am just surprised to know that all along I was talking to a friend which is also a going through a difficult life, a warrior with her own fight against an invisible foe. It explains why you have a deep empathy with me.
You are indeed a brave soul, smart and tough and I am glad that your grandmother had been your inspiration to survive your serious health condition because hemophilia is no joke and I am just praying that you will not have as much bad time in your life with it, succumbing as your doctors had told you but just do what you know is right for you, I am praying for you.
With regards to voting your witness, I really feel embarrassed to say that I already committed my proxy vote to visionaer3003, the owner of the curation account suntr. We had an agreement for the suntr curation account plus other extra vote at 100% weight on my post once a day as a compensation for my vote for his witness, i.e. proxy vote. I also delegated my stake for earning 900 STEEM tokens peer week.
But I have the option of getting 1000 STEEM tokens per week but without anymore 100% weight vote from the curation account suntr. But I chose the option 900 STEEM token payment but with vote from suntr and visionaer himself because I get to earn more although I have to post to have my post voted on, that is how it went.
I hope that you understand my situation over this thing. Miss @wakeupkitty 🌹🌹🌹
I guess in a certain way we get used to being ill, although we keep fighting. One moment everything seems fine, and the next you are down again. I must admit I feel way better today than I ever did. I started on Steemit in bed, somehow it feels like a long time ago.
I am satisfied about what I achieved and how I found a way to improve my life but there's also a limit. No more doctor visits. I have been long enough the labrat.
I understand why you can't vote and wonder how many Steemians vote this way. Can you ask if he can give me a lift and like to join hands? I am not interested in development and don't feel the need to be in the top 20 but being more visible would be helpful and I would like to be able to reward those who engage and give Steemit more spirit which is important if we want this platform be visible and keep it alive.
And if you know someone else, please let me know.
I thank you in advance.
I remember mother saying "we already own half of this hospital" to the persons when she was chats with them at the hospital]s waiting area outside my Neurologist's clinic office in the city which we used to go every 100 days for monitoring my "mild" epilepsy.
What she meant by that is we would commute from our province to the city so frequently that we had spent a lot of money by doing so.
We are told that after my bottle of prescription medication will nearly be consumed (100 tablets of Phenobarbital), that we should get back to him.
But there were other doctors "Neurologist" before him which my mother brought me to but stopped until I had another bout of losing consciousness as a form of my mild epilepsy symptom. So she brought me back to my last Neurologist until we decided to stop going to his clinic anymore before I graduated high school.
I never knew that there is more sinister health issue which was brewing already all along until the symptoms got worse over time and it just all happened until now. My life is just one story of tragedy and survival but I am still fighting to get better and I value you because you care even though we are thousands of kilometers apart.
I will tag Sir @visionaer3003 here.
Sir if you can support Miss @wakeupkitty for her aforementioned goal for this platform, I will be happy if you can lend her a hand and give her witness a vote?
Thank you very much. 😀👍
It is a good remark of your mother, still with a bit of humour. With us we say in these cases the same or: Don't I receive stamps? These stamps are received for free or you can buy them if you shop with certain supermarkets. If you have a booklet filled it's worth a few more euros than you paid for it. More interest than banks give (not too difficult because banks give no interest at all and you have to beg if you want to lay a hand on your savings!).
Yesterday I set up a proxy for my accounts so all SP is bundled now. It is interesting to see how few (dare) to vote or show interest in blowing more life into this platform. Something we all would benefit from.
I would like to see the list with active servers instead of all those
names. It will make voting look more seriously and Steemit as well instead if the ghost town look we face today.I have 16 votes left perhaps more if I know what those I voted for stand for.
I thank you for asking witness @visionaer3003 to support @wakucat tips are welcome.
A happy day friend
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It is a very good thing to be included in the list of getting food stamps but I learned that there is a technicality where if you are earning a certain amount of money even thought it is not enough, then you will not get food stamps.
Here in my country the government help only certain sector of society like giving chosen poor family's children get financial support so that they can graduate from up to College or state universities.
The money that the family makes in the other hand will just then go for their daily essential needs, so that government fund they call "Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program" (4Ps (It means a program to support/help Filipino families which is the poorest of the poor that is) helps the children's schooling needs and makes it affordable for them and it has conditions like the children has to go to school and something like that.
There are other two government programs that aims to help the poor but this one ridiculous one which employs certain dwellers of every Barrio to sweep the streets and in turn will receive a salary, What happens is that the one assigned to list such individual will only include their relatives and friends. My mother was asking to get listed but she is just denied because she is not a relative of that leader of Senior citizens of our Barrio.
The other way for people to get some help from the government was to file a request of financial support to the Mayor. Sometimes the money they get is so small it is not even worth it to go to the Municipal town government where the office of the Mayor is located but many people still try to get some money as some individuals I saw are requesting money to pay for their electricity bills. But because we voted the losing mayor, we will not get any support like we used to with the past Mayor of this town.
Anyway, there aren't any much development here in Steem platform, the inherent hate for Justin Sun makes many developers not to come back. However it made this platform peaceful and there aren't any hateful angry people wrecking anyone's business. But this platform can still thrive like it is now if we just do and practice its intended use which is to interact and use this platform in many positive ways.
I wish your success for this excellent endeavor which you are doing in here Miss @wakeupkitty 😀🌹🌹🌹🧡🧡🧡
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The stamps we receive for free or can buy everyone gets if he shops at a supermarket or cheeseshop or pharmacy but also there are periods you can collect them from on the market and other places and if you have a full card you receive a free product and a full booklet is an amount of money. So we use for the end of the year for food or presents. Many Dutch people are doing it. You find them on the butter, coffee, tea and many more products. I believe we are the country of stamps. LOL It might get fewer but there are also supermarkets given reductions for a longer period but you need the app from the shop.. so basically we are the product.
There was a couple in Rotterdam who started the food bank.
by now the government took over and decided who will receive it but it's exactly enough not to die and mainly the same, unlike what I see from what they provide people with in the US. No fruits, meat and so on and it's getting less because the supermarkets no longer give to the foodbank.
Now we have little cabinets in the streets. People place them in front of their houses. You can put in food or little items, books and so on, whatever you don't need. You are also free to take it out if you need it and it works very well. Let's see how fast the government will forbid it.
It's terrible to ask for help. Hundreds of forms and they like to know everything over years and it depends on the mood of the person who receives help and who doesn't so many don't even ask because it's very stressful.
I believe many of the present Steemians don't even know who Justin Sun is. I discovered it lately. And if they hate him they better go blog somewhere else. I agree with you it became way more peaceful and I am happy with that. If there will be more interaction between the users it will be a much better place. Let's go for that.
A happy evening!