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<\/a><\/p>\nHello darkness my old friend
\nI’ve stood up too fast again
\nI lose my vision while standing
\nBursts of tachy when I am sleeping
\nAnd the blood flow is not getting to my brain
\nSo much pain
\nThat’s the sound of my stomach<\/p>\n
In restless dreams I never sleep
\nCan barely walk right down the street
\nBeneath the halo of an ER bay lamp
\nMy body aches when it’s cold and damp
\nI’m gonna faint from the flash of a neon light
\nDon’t feel alright
\nAnd that’s the sound of my stomach<\/p>\n
On the Dysautonomia International site I saw
\nWe’re 70 million strong maybe more
\nDoctors interrupting when I’m speaking
\nDoctors judging without listening
\nGiving misdiagnoses that they’ve pulled right out of thin air
\nSome don’t care
\nDisturbed by the sound of my stomach<\/p>\n
Fools I said you do not know
\nDysautonomia really blows
\nHear my words that I might teach you
\nTake my pulse so that I might reach you
\nBut my limbs like spaghetti noodles fell
\nAnd echoed through the halls of your clinic<\/p>\n
And the patients begged and prayed
\nPlease give us NIH funding someday
\nDysautonomia International flashed out a warning
\nThat a huge patient movement was forming
\nAnd the sign said
\nThe struggles we all have
\nare written on Facebook walls
\nAnd Instagram
\nAnd whispered over the sound of my stomach
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Sing along to the original Simon & Garfunkel\u00a0song<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, the Sound of Silence.\u00a0<\/span>Even better, send us a video of yourself singing these lyrics! Email your video to info@dysautonomiainternational.org.<\/p>\n For this week’s #SillySaturday humor, let’s find out what would happen if Simon & Garfunkel had dysautonomia. Hello darkness my old friend I’ve stood up too fast again I lose my vision while standing Bursts of tachy when I am sleeping And the blood flow is not getting to my brain So much pain That’s … Continue reading If Simon & Garfunkel had dysautonomia…<\/span> <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>by <\/span><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>by <\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"