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I'm starting to wonder when it's going to end. Starting to really think about my mortality. How many more medical conditions can be heaped on me? (Hello Universe? That wasn't a challenge.)

Here's the short of it: I've developed my third blood clot in my leg. This clotting problem started when I was 18 and had been on the pill for about six months. At that time I was away at college, my first semester, and scared shitless when I had terrible pains in my chest. I wondered if I was having a heart attack. 

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The weather outside has been relatively mild the past couple of weeks -- but you'd hardly know it from looking at me. I've been fairly consistently wearing base layers underneath my short-sleeved workshirts, multiple layers of polar fleece indoors, consuming more commercially-made soup than is good for me, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and still feeling chilled and unable to warm up.

Lest you think it's all in my head, my hands have been turning blackish from my fingernails to my knuckles -- and my toes, likewise. It's not the first autumn that I've had to deal with these issues, but it seems ridiculous that I should have to wear base layers designed to be worn for outdoor winter sports (these garments actually come with warnings to not wear them in conditions over 55 degrees Fahrenheit!) indoors just to keep from constantly shivering, yawning, and doing everything else that suggests I'm running borderline hypothermic.

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