Genetics and Health Blog of the Week: My Life With Lymphedema
This week’s featured blog is My Life With Lymphedema written by Pat O’Connor who was born with hereditary and secondary lymphedema and has lived with it for more than 52 years. There is so much amazing information at My Life With Lymphedema–both medical and personal–that I’m not sure where to start so I went back to the very beginning in October 2005.
…I would be a liar if I said lymphedema has been easy. It hasn’t, and at times it has been brutal with its complications and what it has done to my health. But if I could say only one thing to my fellow lymphedema patients, it would be to grab life, live it to the fullest and enjoy it! I have been able to do so many things that even “normal” people haven’t done and have had a blast doing it. Never give up, never quit, don’t accept a life hidden away dwelling only on with what you can’t do. Go for the gold!!!!!!!
And Pat’s blog is certainly worth a gold medal. Also check out Pat’s website - Lymphedema People.
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1 opinion for Genetics and Health Blog of the Week: My Life With Lymphedema
Dr Manish Raval
Oct 19, 2007 at 5:50 am
God, when created five fingers, each different in size,lymphedema ,he must have thought, I never planned this, those who have it know it ,a beautiful lady with different size arms and agentleman with different size legs.
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