May 18, 2011 Tucson, Arizona
Even at the age of eight, I felt a sardonic incredulity towards the world around me. I did like the Brownies, as it got me out of the house. I actually went to summer camp. Everyone but me got a nickname. Those in charge said the name Zoe was so unusual, why bother?
Here's something else unusual. I have a huge vitamin D deficiency - known in children as as rickets and in adults as osteomalacia. I may well be the only human being in Arizona who doesn't get enough sunlight. I am also seriously anemic and am perhaps developing hypertension. Add that to my already chronic pain from degenerative discogenic disease and a multi-layered form of clinical depression, it is remarkable that I function at all.
Even at the age of eight, I felt a sardonic incredulity towards the world around me. I did like the Brownies, as it got me out of the house. I actually went to summer camp. Everyone but me got a nickname. Those in charge said the name Zoe was so unusual, why bother? Here's something else unusual. I have a huge vitamin D deficiency - known in children as as rickets and in adults as osteomalacia. I may well be the only human being in Arizona who doesn't get enough sunlight. I am also seriously anemic and am perhaps developing hypertension. Add that to my already chronic pain from degenerative discogenic disease and a multi-layered form of clinical depression, it is remarkable that I function at all.
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