Hi Carol
Welcome to the forum sorry it was these cicumstances that brought you here but you are one step forward now. Sunshine has said it all, education is the key, doctors don't know how to help us.
I know what you mean about the groveling, I can only work about 4 hours a day and have been at that pace for 10 years. I hate not being able it really sucks. Other people do not understand why you can't work and see nothing wrong with you. I had a chance at a job full time in a health food store recently but was too scared to take it because I didn't think I could hold up to 40 hours a week. I seem to fall down in the afternoons and didn't think they would appreciate a zombie running around trying to help other people get well. I am on the road to recovery but is a very slow process but I have great hope of regaining my lost health. I am doing every thing I can to detox. Even all the off the wall stuff and anything that seems less expensive since the money is very tight. Things are working slowly and wishing I was 2 or 3 years down this road but am willing to be patient as I know it took many years to get to this point.
Anyways I just wanted to say welcome and education is your key to opening the door to your regained health. Study, study that is the name of the game with the mercury. Hang in there...there are better days awaiting. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/byebye.gif" alt="" />
Rachel