Author Archives: widebertha

Unknown's avatar

About widebertha

I am a 77 year old woman who enjoys reading. maintaining my websites and genealogy research. This website documents my journey with Graves Disease. Included are stories submitted by readers of this site. Please feel free to add your story of living with an autoimmune disease. I was told that if you get one autoimmune disease you will probably get more. This has happened to me.

October 18, 2002

At my appointment with No Name this afternoon, I mentioned my increasing fatigue and exhaustion, increasing water retention, breathlessness upon exertion and increasing joint and muscle pain.  He realized that I was not prepared to leave until I had an … Continue reading

Posted in Autoimmune disease | Leave a comment

September 28, 2002

 Zking’s Cartoons The following cartoons are compliments of my 8 year old grandson.  They depict his version of Widebertha.  Grandson hates any long car rides therefore imagining and drawing the cartoons was a great distraction.  I must say that the … Continue reading

Posted in Autoimmune disease | Leave a comment

September 21, 2002

After my morning appointment yesterday with Nature Boy, I went to my parents’ house for lunch.  I share the humorous aspects of my appointments with them.  Discussing the ridiculous antics of these creatures we call doctor keeps me from being … Continue reading

Posted in Autoimmune disease | Leave a comment

September 20, 2002

 This morning I had my second appointment with Nature Boy, the naturopathic doctor I saw two weeks ago.  I must say that this appointment was quite the experience.  Somehow we got on the topic of where I bought my food.  I … Continue reading

Posted in Autoimmune disease | Leave a comment

September 16, 2002

At Risk For Losing Treatment Options? The following links describe in detail the legal actions that the College of Physicians & Surgeons of British Columbia are currently taking against Dr. David Derry. http://www.bites-medical.org/dderry/hearing.html http://www.bites-medical.org/dderry/history.html http://www.bites-medical.org/dderry/context.html http://www.bites-medical.org/dderry/do.html http://www.bites-medical.org/dderry/media.html The following exerpt … Continue reading

Posted in Autoimmune disease | Leave a comment

September 7, 2002

Today was my long awaited appointment with the Naturopathic doctor, whom I shall call Nature Boy.  My appointment started at 10:30 AM.   We spent the better part of the appointment going over my medical history and my symptoms.  He … Continue reading

Posted in Autoimmune disease | Leave a comment

September 3, 2002

The phone rang this morning at 8:30 AM.  I, of course, was still deep under the covers hoping for at least another hour of sleep after a very restless night.  It was the secretary from No Name’s office.  She told … Continue reading

Posted in Autoimmune disease | Leave a comment

August 26, 2002

The first thing I did when I got up this morning was call the director of the hospital lab here in town. He will from now on be called WeeWillyWooze. After introducing myself, I told WeeWillyWooze about my experience in … Continue reading

Posted in Autoimmune disease | Leave a comment

August 23, 2002

Today was the day I was going to have my lab work done; the labs ordered on Wednesday by No Name and the bi-weekly sodium and potassium. When I got to the lab and presented my lab requisition, I was … Continue reading

Posted in Autoimmune disease | Leave a comment

August 21, 2002

Today was my appointment with No Name; the appointment that I had been anxious about. Wonders will never cease. I broached the subject of Squirt and his demand for my test results. No Name assured me that Squirt would never … Continue reading

Posted in Autoimmune disease | Leave a comment