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Getting married in less than 3 weeks. Very exciting. Been making DIY decor with Cricut and getting ready for it. Getting married to the best thing AMR ever gave me, a great partner. Truly an awesome dude. 👌 I'm greatly blessed.

I mean, it's not about being unappreciated by your fellow providers. It's about society not appreciating us and that forces us to move up to medic or often times move out of EMS just in order to survive. EMT is rarely sustainable long term now unless you're making sacrifices you probably...

Oh I mean this all the more, I agree with you. I have realized how much stuff has taken up space in my mind rent free and for what? Not my benefit.

My tough go has steeled my resolve, heart and mind.

I had a real tough go, old traumas coming back up. But I'm doing a lot better now. Taking a break from the truck and back in paramedic school. Round 2, but it's all I can do.

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Yes, and the people whose parents have huntingtons should just live life as if they're perfectly healthy and never get tested. I've got an appointment scheduled with a top geneticist, they'll schedule me for an echo before I have the appointment with her. Not much to do now but wait...

I told my dad years ago I thought I had it, as a young teen. I gave him a few symptoms like positive wrist and thumb sign, my build, etc. He didn't even give it a second though. Dismissed me as being lazy and looking for excuses. Just weak and pathetic as usual basically. My fiancé didn't...

Being a benchwarmer? Cool. Maybe I don't want to live half a life, being very careful not to get my heart rate above 70 in case my 131/86 ruptures my glass cannon of an aorta/heart. Maybe I don't want to be robo-meter maid because he can't be a real cop. Guys can you carry this pillow...

I've got an appointment in November with a specialist. She's a top doctor even it comes to marfans and genetics. Before I see her, they're going to schedule me an echo. They're going to try to bump my appointment up, though. In the mean time, I overthink. I don't know what else to do...

Vagus nerve particularly. And I'm sure many other things.

I agree

I will have to do a lot of discernment and thinking. I know that. Originally I thought "**** it, I'll be a field medic anyway" But then I though about how if I passed out due to a heart issue, got a collapsed lung or a more severe dislocation or such, then it wouldn't be fair to...

I have talked about med school. But I just feel.. bad... about my future.

I've got the high arched palette, the overvbite, temporomandibular joint disorder, dislocations, easy bruising, never could put on weight, fat, muscle, my joints naturally hyperextend. I've got the long fingers and toes, compared to the woman in my family, I'm tall. I saw a rheumatologist that...

So I've not been as active lately, but something came up. It looks like I've got Marfans. I'll need additional testing, but it's a 99% thing. I've already had dislocations, among other things. It explains a lot of my symptoms, inability to gain muscle, severe bruising, slow healing fatigue...

And some people here think I don't contribute much . SMH 😔

Fish.... why?

What do you call the little plastic, waxy containers you keep respiratory meds in? They remind me of wax bottles but plastic. Albuterol, levalbuterol, Ipatropium come in them.

My Hispanic side of the family has genetic White Coat Syndrome. They don't go until they code.