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Regina

Top 10 Things Easier to Deal With Than Endo!!

1.  Finding out that my debt card was missing.

2.  Getting supper glue in my eye.

3. Filing Taxes

4. Going through a divorce

5. Waxing my legs.

6.  Working Retail on Black Friday.

7. Shutting the car door on my finger.

8. Having a migrane for 3 days.

9. Having the flu.

10. Having a root canal.

All this is easier than dealing with Endo.

5 months ago

Michelle

Easier to deal with than Endo?

1. Bathing a cat.

2. Receiving a full body wax.

3. Being the first person voted off a reality show.

4. Getting a flat tire and then realizing that your spare tire is also flat.

5. Finding your ex having sex with one of your parents a la Jerry Springer.

6. Eating a whole bag of potatoe chips and finding a spider in the b ottom of the bag.

7. Going to sleep with a fly buzzing around your room and waking up to blissfuly silcence. Then ten seconds later hacking the remains of said fly up in your sputum.

8. Getting any type of tattoo or piercing.

9. Arriving at a yoga retreat intent on a stress-free weekend to find out that its an all naked all of the time retreat... and there's very little yoga.

10. Watching someone make out with their dog right after you watched the dog tongue scrape it's own butt for a half hour.

 

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That's all I could think of for now.

8 months ago

lacy

1. going through childbirth

2. almost peeing your pants from being stuck in traffic

3. having a IV put in wrong so that the fluid backs up into your arm

4. having kawasaki disease as a toddler

5. the healing afterwards of a laproscopy

6. the irritation of not knowing many people in your area

7. losing my first dog

8. flying on an airplane throwing up

9. being pregnant and throwing up everyday

10. people not listening to you

11 months ago

Hope

1. Pulling out my hair one piece at a time.

2. Stomping my toe.

3. Having my children.

4. Losing my grandmother.

5. Sneezing and busting my lip open on the deep freezer.

6. Falling out of my car and landing on my knees in front of everyone at Walmart.

7. Watching my daughter having test done for bladder reflux.

8. Almost losing my other grandmother in a car wreck when she had bleeding on the brain.

9. Being pushed to the emotional limits by close family who is supposed to be there for you.

10. Having an epidural.

14 months ago

Geneva

1. Speaking in front of people when you are "painfully shy"

2. Being in a car wreck (or 2) and getting back behind the wheel, so nerve racking

3. the ache of a broken heart

4. having to pee so bad you think your bladder will burst

5. hangover headaches

6. the sadness and guilt of an orphaned kitten's death (at the time I thought it was my fault he died, but looking back it was because he was so young and vulnerable, still I felt horrible about it for 3 years)

7. stubbing your toe

8. getting a catheter put in your hand that blows your vein

9. the pain of laprascopy recovery that "feels like Albert Pujols hit you with a baseball bat" (that's what my surgeon told me I'd feel like)

10. having chondromalacia patella (softening of the cartilage of the knee, causes pain with extension of the knee because the knee cap pops out and back in) 

14 months ago

Peggy

1.Being emotinally,physically & mentally abused by my mother starting at age 2

2.Being emotinally,physically & mentally abused by my step-family

3.Ears pierced

4.Getting four permant teeth removed(back ones)

5.Being emotinally & mentally abused by my monster-in-law

6.Giving birth

7.Being mentally & emotinally abused by my dad's family before his funeral & after

8.Getting a bad hair cut

9.Being mentally & emotinally abused by my two sister-in-laws

10.Getting all four wisdom teeth removed

All these things I could deal with.

Endometriosis sucks!!

15 months ago

Erin

1. Loosing a Loved one or Friend

2. Never Finding True Love

3. Getting Cancer

4. Being Blind

5. Catching yourself on Fire

6. Being Stranded on a Desert Island

7. Getting sunburn all over your body

8. Being Dumped

9. Poision Ivy

10. A terrible Haircut that will never grow out!

15 months ago

Mandy

1. Driving 14 hours for a Hurricane evacuation, when on a normal day, this trip takes 4 and to get there and have to stay in a one bedroom apartment with 12 other people!

2. Coming home after hurricane has passed and having no electricity or water for a week and a half! [miserable.]

3. Having all 4 widom teeth pulled at one time

4. Getting a tattoo & piercings

5. Being told I dont like my mom by a 9 year old because she cant have her way

6. Being stuck 13 times in one visit  because the dang ER staff could not get a vein for an IV 

7. Dealing with severely drunk people during Mardi Gras

8.  Working a 16 hour shift until midnight and getting up for 7am the next day to do it again

9. Dealing with train track braces at age 29 and having them give you multiple ulcers in your mouth

10. Car Wreck

15 months ago

Nicole

1. Not finishing college

2. hiking in the mountains for 4 1/2 hours after not working out for a year

3. A  Typical Migraines

4. My sister and her hateful words

5. Dealing with drunk people

6. Depression

7. Horrible vivid nightmares

8. car crash

9. Being told my childhood wasn't as horrible as I remember it.

10. Having wisdom teeth growing in and not being able to have them taken out

15 months ago