Sunday October 25, 2026 | Free Thoughts | Lymphedema | trauma | SM
I do think that Trauma can be from a major car accident. I think that it started from I would say when I was about 2 years old. Then when I was 18 years old, I was in a major car accident. The accident was in June 1992. My dad broke is nose and my spleen was ruptured. I can remember me tumbling around in the van. I was in the hospital for 2 weeks and then taken very carefully by ambulance to a hospital in Beaumont. In the van, I was listening to music and drinking a pepsi and eating skittles when all of a sudden I looked up and saw a big yellow moving truck heading toward us. The ambulance driver told my dad if I had been wearing a seat belt, I would have been dead. I never had eaten skittles or drank a pepsi ever again after that. Do you think that this is trauma starting before SM or is this ptsd? I went to the doctor on Thursday October 22, they said I have Lymphedema where my foot, ankle and ...