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02-02-2008, 09:52 PM
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teen deaths
Hi. In my story, a teenager dies from a disease. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of diseases that don't show many symptoms, but can kill a person in a couple of years or so. I can only think of cancer. Thank you.
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02-02-2008, 10:10 PM
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I can think of malaria but you can only get that in the tropics region and it takes only a few hours to set in and you can see it within two days and die within five if it isnt treated.
other than that, go for bone cancer is my best idea.
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02-03-2008, 12:27 PM
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HIV/AIDS can kill in a short period of time if untreated and tried to be hidden by the teenager.
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02-03-2008, 03:59 PM
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HIV/AIDS can kill in a short period of time if untreated and tried to be hidden by the teenager.
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My god but you're ignorant. You can be HIV+ for anything up to 10 years and not even know you have it. In fact it's estimated that 25% of HIV+ people have no idea that they're infected. |
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02-03-2008, 07:21 PM
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lmao. Ignorance. I did not say HIV+, I said HIV/AIDS. You see after you are HIV+ you get AIDS....
HIV+ and HIV/AIDS are two different things.
Lastly, don't call me ignorant, I have lost someone close to me because of AIDS.
Next time you jump to call someone a name please think.
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02-03-2008, 08:41 PM
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Depression.
Boom, Headshot! Crack, Hanging! Splat, Freefalling!
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02-03-2008, 08:48 PM
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Syphillis, Diarrhea, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough.
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02-04-2008, 12:41 AM
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Lastly, don't call me ignorant, I have lost someone close to me because of AIDS.
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Hasn't everyone. And I'll stop calling you ignorant when you stop saying ignorant things. |
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02-04-2008, 05:48 AM
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How about one of those flies that burrow into your brain?
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02-08-2008, 07:02 AM
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I was thinking skin cancer as well, which is a good one that gets teenagers. There's also leukemia (sp?). Or Hodgkins disease, but I think there are visible symptoms to all these.
The reason I started with skin cancer is because the visible evidence is small (a mole) but the cancer is large underneath. Perhaps by the time they realise they've got a problem it's too late.
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02-08-2008, 04:03 PM
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An eating disorder. Its a mental disease but it is still a disease, and alot of people with anorexia/bulimia have 'normal' weight criteria, but because of prolonged damage to the body, there are hundred of seemingly healthy people who die every year from heart failure, organ fallout, and other health-related problems that people never see coming.
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02-08-2008, 05:56 PM
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I think a symptom of an eating disorder is being nasty-ass thin.
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02-08-2008, 06:51 PM
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For some, yes. But there are people with eating disorders that have a normal weight. ED-NOS, Bulimics, and compulsive overeaters all tend to appear normal. It tends to only be the anorexics that are 'nasty-ass thin', as you so graciously put it.
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05-26-2008, 06:13 PM
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Thanks for the suggestions.
Some of you guys are easily provoked...
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05-26-2008, 07:03 PM
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Some of you guys are easily provoked...
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It's called "moderation".
Lymphatic cancer? |
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