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Originally Posted by jimi...
What you call pus is a brain abscess. It means germs has come from outside and spread to inside the head. Mostly they come from some kind of infection in the head area. Like an ear infection. When you have any type of leukemia your immune system doesn't work as good with fighting off infection. I assume that is how it could progress into the head.
Something taking up space increases pressure inside the skull. That causes things like headaches and nausea. More severe cases it can cause problems with speech and parts of your body being paralyzed. You can also have mental issues like being confused, slow to respond and irritated.
So yea it could have been a symptom. If it really is or if she just uses the fact I don't know. Always good doubting abusers.
How bad CLL is depends if there is a positive gene they look for which makes the illness worse than if the gene is absent. As she has lost weight and bruising shows that she needs treatment. I assume they have treated the abscess.
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Yeah, my mum said something about getting it drained a while back, so apparently she's been abscess free for a couple of weeks now. Haven't seen much of a difference from her normal behavior, other than her being a lot more clingy than usual in the past week or so, but it's understandable, right? What made me angry while she was explaining CLL to us was that she said she was anorexic when describing her weight loss. Being someone who wants to be a psychiatrist when I'm older and have looked into anorexia nervosa before (both on my own and at school), I wanted to scream at my mum that just because you feel nauseous at the sight and smell of food and won't eat then doesn't automatically make you someone with anorexia. She throws around (unfortunately) loaded terms when she tries to guilt trip us into doing what she wants, or when she tries to make us understand just how hard it is to be her and to have to deal with ungrateful kids like us.
Whelp, thanks for the response! I very much appreciate it
