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Just take another pill

 

Sat down in the GP room ,hoping if I told him everything straight they’d help me soon . Pain management is the place I need to be but instead they insist another pill or three . I’m not wanting to be off on the sick line , I just want to manage my pain and finally feel fine .  

Just take this one and you’ll feel brand new , it’ll take the pain away and you’ll love everything you do . Come ...

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#1 (bitter pangs)

 

 

Bitter pangs

Leak puddling

To the floor

 

The GP

Noxiously

Unconcerned

 

By women

Crying 'ouch'

For sick notes

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Rare Brain Disease

Sunday, March 6, 2016

 

Rare Brain Disease




When you have a rare

brain disease with no cure yet




So long ago as me being

inside my mother's

womb a very bad rare

brain disease was

passed on to me while

I was inside of my mother's

womb



Then from that time I

have found out that my

disease is called Arnold Chiari 

Malformation Disease

a...

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Diseased Brain

{Diseased Brain}

 

Some day's I wish my brain worked like other's brain's did of being normal but since I was born this way I can't help it when my thinking or writing gets messed up with backwards word's or being out of place but I do fix them if I catch them 

 

 

But if I could help it I would but sometimes I have no control over that and it's like chiari takes over my train of th...

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