Wow, there seems to be quite a few authors here with serious health problems. When I look over the blogs and forum posts there is one after another! Why are so many of our authors getting sick?
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Radiation sickness
from computer screens? Stress? Old age? Too little cycling? Dunno, what do you think?
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In the Northern Hemisphere, it's vacation time. Up until now, a lot of people haven't had time to be sick. :)
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I dunno, I'm just getting...
... over bronchitus... Antibiotics, Steroids & Codeine cough supressant. YUCK.
Maybe there's a conspiracy or something. If it's some "author's convention" in some tropical island, and the illnesses are a cover story, I'm really upset. Maybe that was only for established authors.
I do hope anyone else "under the weather" (sick/ill/hurting/etc.) is better soon.
Annette
Well ....
Don't forget as a group (TG) we tend to suffer from depression. That does open you up to all kind of things by lowering your resistance to diseases as well making you less likely to take good care of yourself.
Just my take on it!
Hugs!
grover
PS Holly is correct about that!
It isn't just TG authors, it is just being transgendered
especially among those over 40.
But as far as we as a group are concerned, I just counted 331 authors on the Top Shelf list. You are going to see a significant number of health problems in any group that large anyway.
But hate to say it, being transgendered, especially for those of us who grew up when there was far less support or even knowledge within even the medical community, ( before say 1975 ), left a lot of us doing badly in school, which means being stuck in lower paying jobs, and more importantly, jobs with few or no health benefits. Result, as a group, we are, or at least, those of us who are older, much less likely to see a doctor until things begin to go bad.
And, just being older also makes it more likely we will begin to have health problems
( I was lucky, after I flunked out of jr college, the threat of the draft made me enlist, and the Navy straightened me out a bit. Being Holly is the r4eason I did not try to make it a career, but I did well in Navy schools, and returned to college and did well there, too, so I got into work with good pay and benefits, and probably saved my life in 1980 when the doctors were not sure I’d make it )
But I know too many who as I said, do not/cannot see a doctor until they are desperate.
Many self-medicate for transition with no lab test work to look for possible problems.
The doctor who is watching me, cut my Spiro in half, because my potassium level was near the top end of the normal range.
At the same time, I began the HRT, he told me, and my primary care physician also agreed, that I am no longer borderline diabetic, I AM DIABETIC, and early enough to keep it under control by changes in diet and pills.
I have seen great changes in how the medical and other fields handle Transgender, especially in the past 20 years ( due in large part to this internet ), and I have high hopes that we, as a group are not going to be facing as many problems of education and low pay and no medical benefits. If I’m right, the sort of health problems you questioned, Mr. Ram, will drop closer to average for the population at large.
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