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Family Shit
So, a few years ago, My brother was admitted to the hospital, essentially what happened could be described as a slow-stroke. He at the time was like 28, the age I am now.
Basically what happened is he developed a EXTREAMLY rare medical issue where his immune system decided that the proteins in his own nervisystem were bad things and destroied them.
We are talking a desease that less then 1,000 people have had EVER. So there is barely anything known about it. They don't know what causes it, they don't know how it's transmitted, they don't know anything.
Luckly due to how rare it is, basically all my brothers medical bills were paid for as long as he allowed himself to be used for research, as that's a no brainer he opted in and said yes to help them out.
My brother and I have the same opinion when it comes to things like this. We don't particularily like humanity as a whole, People are fucking idiots. But, when it comes to shitty medical issues that could ruin a persons life with no wrong doing of their own we try and help if we can. So even if they haddn't offered to pay for anything my brother would of gladly offered to be a gunnie pig.
Anyways, long story short on this, due to my brothers case and a few others they have been able to narrow down a test to verify that the issue is actually this issue and not something else. Sadly they haven't been able to develop something that detects it before bad signs appear. In my brothers case Paralysis of the face, arms and chest. LUCKALLY! They do have a treatment, basically artifically growing the proteins and injecting them into you to replace the shit that was eaten. So my brother was able to fully-ish {still has movement and pain issues} recover.
So, moving own to a few days ago, I get a call from my father. The history on him is another story, but a quick gist, mentally and physically abusive, drug addict, manipulative, drain on society, only real reason I still have any contact is in cases of emergency. Note this is my biological father, not my step-father which again is a WHOLE nother story. {There is a reason that I still hide knives withen arms reach of every house I live in}
So a few days ago, my father calls me leaves a very non-descriptive voice mail telling me to call him back at a number. I call it back it turns out to be a hospital in portland. Give them his name, they patch me through to the room. Turns out, my dad has developed the exact illness that my brother had. In this case, manifesting as complete leg, chest, and one eye paralysis. And as I told you before this is a extreamly rare thing. And the fact that a father-son got it {note: this is literally the only case, but again so rare that it matters} they are thinking it may possibly be inhearited.
So, talking to my dad, he does this vague bullshit, "The doctors have told me to talk to all of my family and tell them if they experiance any of the signs to come in and get tested as it might happen to them". I ask him what the signs are and he lists off this vague shit, tingeliness in the extermities, delay in movement, pain in joints and extremities. I have to remind my father that when I was a small child, I broke my spine. {Took a headder off of my grandparents porch trying to mimic my brother, it was dumb, and is kinda a funny story} So all the simptoms and more I live with on a daily bases. There are certian angels in which I move my arms and back which makes it feel like I am literally being stabbed by a knife. And this is coming from a man who has been shot 6 times, stabbed 9, and broken to many bones to count {Seriously I've told some of the stories, some are fun, some are not}. Seriously, if you ever see me at a conventin, and I seem to be walking/moving weird, or for some 'unknown' reason I close my eyes and 'smerk' {It's not a smerk it just looks like one} it's because im either avoiding a movement that I know will cause me pain or i've accedently done that movement and am dealing with the pain.
Anyways, so back on subject. My father calls me up, leaves a cryptic voice mail. And I call him back and he tells me very nonchalantly that I may have a super rare desease that will literally make it so that one day I simply wake up an can't move any part of my body... And the only 'signs' of it are things that I deal with on a daily bases seince I was a small child.... Ya.. I'm not happy, I'me very concerend, and I'm rather fucking annoied at everything.
Now, slightly related, more of just a instance of how hes a manipulative twat, and something that pisses me off. When a family member is in the hospital, typically you afford them some lenience and try and help out as much as you can. My father leaves me a cryptic message one day "Hey... I need to ask you something important, please call me back at the hospital". Turns out the asshole wanted to ask me to fix his friends computer who i've already told him several times that I won't do because I don't wana deal with that bullshit... Anwyays just a small bitch about that.
This isn't much, there are a lot more details that I skipped/skimmed over. But ya, im annoied, and pissed off, and in pain, and hating family, nothing on this has been spell checked, fuck this shit.
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