Diagnosing via PHOTOGRAPH

[MoneyGal]

I've spent some time looking at old photos of myself over the past few days, and here's what I'm wondering: how is it that someone didn't DRAG me to the doctor years ago, saying, "Look at this woman -- there is clearly something very wrong with her -- we need to find it and fix it!" Seriously, in picture after picture, I look completely, utterly exhausted.

I spent years thinking "I'm just not photogenic" when what I see now is my diagnosis screaming out to be found. In pictures now I look alive!

Has anyone else noticed this? Do you look back at the time before diagnosis and actually wonder how it was that you were NOT diagnosed earlier?

[mars]

Hi MoneyGal

In reply to your post I give you a resounding "YES".

I have been showing people the photo in my new licence, and asking them if they can see the difference between my new licence and my old licence. And they can.

In my new licence my face looks alive, and my eyes are bright. On my old licence I look half dead, and half asleep.

I guess I have been looking that half dead way for too long for anyone to think it was other than normal. But I used to look at my passport photos, and say to myself - that is not me, that is not how I look. And I hated my passport photos.

Now, I am alive, and getting energy back into my body and my face.

Its great the same thing is happening to you, and probably to a lot of us.

cheers

Mars

[carbonman]

MG, 3mths after my thearpy started, I was talking w/a friend/colleague.
I had not seen him in that 3mths.
As we were catching up, he looked at me and said I looked different.
I asked how. He said my eyes had a sparkle and I just seemed so alive.
I told him my cpap story.

He immediately went to see his doc.
...yada, yada, yada.....he is on cpap w/oxygen now....
and has a new sparkle in his eye.

[Snorebert]

Cman said:

as a new sparkle in his eye

I like it! "Share the sparkle!"