Hi! I am a chick with Dercum's Disease. If you've found this, you most likely either have it or think you might.
Dercum's is a rare disease - number 3 on the NORD (National Organization of Rare Disease) list. As of last estimate we had about 500 people in the U.S. who have been identified as having it. We found them through support groups, facebook and our doctor. We suspect there are many more but that's all we can identify.
Being a curious person I just HAD to know.... Looked up the U.S. population and divided it by 500. Golly gee, I am one in about 61,000 some people! I can't tell you how many people have asked me to buy a lottery ticket! :-)
For some reason these odds go against my normal "never win anything" nature. Which of course leads to the big question WHY ME???????
Living with Dercum's is full of ups and downs. My hope is to post regularly and give you some insight into what a day is like with DD.
For today my thought is YAY! I made it through another work week! Only hade to take a few hours of FMLA. Not bad! Today I feel like I have a cold or allergies or something drippy. But.... pain is not too bad and I can actually be somewhat lazy today! A GOOD day in DD land!
Hope you are having a good day, too!
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