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Well, life is interesting at the moment. For almost eight years I've had this "condition" that no one has surely diagnosed. The closest we have come is to a "disease" called osteomylitis. (And a bunch of other random junk along with that name.) So for years I've been getting surgeries and lovely power pills to try and get this awful thing off of me. Its like an extra growth on the bone, and mine happens to be located in my jaw. However, it keeps growing back, so the doctors almost gave up after so long. (Which sadly has made it unbearably painful.)

Then we went to this facial surgeon, actually for an entirely different reason: wisdom teeth. We gave him a run down of this horrid history, and he totally ignored the wisdom teeth and wanted to start attacking this problem that at the moment was having no treatment.

So right now, I'm hooked to a constant IV pump that I carry in a purse to school. It hooks into my arm, and a tube runs down my veins directly to my heart. I get penicillin right into the main stream of my blood. With this, I'm going to have to go to the hospital for hyperbarric (Forget the spelling) oxygen treatment every day after school. I might have to miss 15 minutes every single day of the last class. I'd have to be in a tube for hours. So much for trying to keep all this hidden from follow classmates.

Totally apart from all this, I have suddenly developed a great pain in my hips, causing a limp. The chiropractor says my pelvis is lopsided.

And I have blisters from my shoes...

I am struggling in school already in my important senior year, and I must say that none of this is helping much. So I'm writing this not only to vent out my anger and frustration in this all, but to have my own little pity party. So how is your life? crying