Sissy I loved your post… very inspiring. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_thumright.gif

And Natalie I really do feel bad for you… I’ll be praying for you! And I definitely like Fleur’s advice to do some of your own research and see what you can find.

This reminds me of that show called Mystery Diagnosis or something like that… I think it’s on TLC (or Discovery? hmmm…) but it’s a show all about people that have strange illnesses that plague them for years and doctors can never seem to give them the right answers. But always at the conclusion of the show, there’s a specialist or someone (like Dr. House, hehe) that pours over the right books and finds some odd condition that no one has hardly heard of and they can treat it. One poor girl had unbelievable stiffness in her hands and she eventually couldn’t move them at all, and soon spread throughout her entire body. Turns out she had "sclera derma" (spelling?), means "hard skin" in Latin or Greek or whatever. The skin and tendons in her hands would literally just turn hard, resulting in her not being able to move her hands. With treatment and therapy, she can now move her body just fine, but her hands are stuck. She can move maybe a couple fingers and her wrists, but that’s it. She’s still very lucky!

Ok that was a random tangent but my point kinda-sorta (I’m very articulate tonight, aren’t I?) was that it may take a while, but I hope that someone somewhere has some answers for you. It does suck for now, but take what Sissy said and remember that you are still you and keep your head up high and never stop looking for answers! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif