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My Daily Life with Mast Cell Disease

I have had a few friends ask questions about my health recently. These questions were not specific technical questions indicating a familiarity with this illness but were very general questions about my illness indicating that some explanations and information might be useful to my family and friends. I felt the answer would be to post a link to a website as well as a link to a YouTube video, but unfortunately, I could not find any concise material to link so I decided to write about my personal experiences and struggles with my chronic illness here. My chronic illness actually consists of two versions of Mast Cell Disease and multiple spinal injuries, exasperated with occasional bouts with cancer. A little more than ten years ago I developed Systemic Mastocytosis which involves numerous internal organs. A few years later I developed another version of this illness which involves the skin called Cutaneous Mastocytosis to add to my systemic illness. Mast Cell Disease is cla