[QUOTE=Loach]
From what I read it is from direct exposure to the sappiest part of the sap. Brushing against the leaves won’t do it unless environmental conditions are just right to make the leaves very sappy.
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Yup, I was in pulling roots, and not even knowing they were PI (early spring, leaves weren’t unfurled yet.) And then, the flies bit me where I had been rubbing my neck - I figured they drove the PI into my skin.
I think I’ll avoid that situation now, though…
[QUOTE=whiterabbit]
No, I win!
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Less than one in a million??? You definitely win.
[QUOTE=Brynda]
MissGypsy, could your kid have tic disorder?
http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Facts+for+Families&name=Tic+Disorders
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Just an update: yeah, it seems he has something similar to that, with a long medical name that I can’t recall right now. There’s a medication that might help. Your link was helpful to me and I thank you. It always helps me to have some idea of what to expect to hear from the doctors.
[QUOTE=whiterabbit]
No, I win!
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I concede.
Why, thank you!
I’m the “Hey, guys, come down to exam room 5 and look at this!” patient. That’s never happened exactly but at the majority of my ortho visits in my life there’s been a small crowd.
Isn’t it fun having to explain what you’ve got when the doctor is saying, “I think I heard of that back in medical school. Maybe.”
Not just her ortho visits, either. whiterabbit’s mother here. When she was a kid and we’d go to the pediatric clinic at the military hospital, every resident in the place would come in to poke and prod her. I spent untold hours educating them on the fine points of her rare form of dwarfism.
And even when we went to the specialist at Johns Hopkins a few years ago, he got all excited and dug out a geneticist and they spent a couple of hours going over her medical history in excruciating detail.
To this point, I think she’s seen exactly three doctors in her entire life who have ever actually seen another real live SMD-K person before.
And by the way, as far as we can determine, it’s a random mutation; there’s usually no family history for this one.
[QUOTE=Litoris]
I have this condition, too and it sucks. Each successive set is weaker than the previous set, so I have all kinds of problems with my teeth. I broke an otherwise seemingly fine (even the dentist thought the tooth was ok) tooth by chewing on a piece of Trident gum.
I am a total medical oddity. I don’t even want to think about all the weirdness that makes up the person that I am. Suffice it to say that when I go to a new doctor/specialist for things and they take that deep breath and go “uhh” my response is “what now?”
Of course, one of the funniest things about me is that when I get sick, I don’t run a fever – instead, my temperature will drop. Combine that with a really low resting heartrate (think 40 bpm), a very low resting respiration rate, and an obscenely low blood pressure (can drop as low as 80/45 without me even noticing) and you have some seriously freaked out medical staff when I went in with chest pains (it was my gallbladder, but presented dead center of my chest).
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Wow… are you a lizard? Just kidding, but damn that does sound odd.