Denial: A tiger in a zebra’s body. “Have you in the last three months installed a shower rail?” I said, “No, but does a 6ft male count?” The nurse chuckled
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My name is Lane Cooper. On October 23, 2016, I was stacking firewood with my uncle, when I went home I started urinating blood. I went to the ER and
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I am 54 years old. Last week I just got the diagnosis that I was begging, even crying out to find. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Sounds like a complicated name. Of course,
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When I sit, invariably I cross my ankles and they relax into this position. Sadly, this also means they give whenever they feel like it. My story is not uncommon
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One evening in 2007, I was on the computer at my home in Arlington, Virginia, browsing articles on CNN’s website when a headline caught my eye about a children’s band
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Ever since I was young, I was always “different”. I amused my friends and adults by contorting my body into weird shapes. The hyperextension in my arms, abnormally long fingers,
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I was diagnosed with EDS after two years of doctor visits and a lifetime of unrelated health problems. Originally, I was searching for the reason why my chronic pain syndrome
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All of my life I knew I was different. Constantly spraining my ankles, being able to take my jaw out of the socket, very flexible, knee surgeries, premature labor with
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