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12-30-2017, 02:31 PM | #311 (permalink) | ||
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It was miserable though. She couldn't eat, when she did it would be tiny amounts, and she'd get debilitatingly nauseated for literally days afterward. She was a skeleton by the end, and she's still skinny as **** now. It was long term (about two years), and actually watching someone die of it would have been awful. And ever learning afterward that the doctors passed it off as anorexia would have made me want to kill an MD very painfully. My grandfather's knowledge and medical connections very literally saved her life, and I can imagine many people dying due to unintentional medical neglect.
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It's not even that. There's a vast amount that any given doctor will not know because the human body and mind is so unknowable that it's perfectly understandable that they wouldn't know but a fraction of it, and when faced with something that can be easily and rationally explained by a more common condition as anorexia it's perfectly reasonable to ascribe it to that. It was a very rare disease that could be easily dismissed as anorexia, and wouldn't have any proof without x-rays, and even then there are only a very few doctors who would even know it was a thing and recognize it. But it would still be enraging to find it out after the fact when your loved one was dead.
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12-30-2017, 03:17 PM | #315 (permalink) |
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In America that’s partly because of our litigation process. An incorrect exotic diagnosis is harder to defend. The doctors knew that the symptoms ticked off enough boxes that anorexia was a safe choice. As far as the testing , the patient presents certain symptoms and they follow a rubric of what tests they need to give to cover their asses: no more no less. Batlord’s mom is lucky there was someone involved willing to go outside the box. Usually in a case like that, the problem doesn’t resolve, you switch to another specialist, he repeats the exact same steps as the last guy, maybe one more and then the family is hearing how they did everything they could do.
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I'm sure every anorexic would say the same.
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04-24-2018, 03:38 PM | #320 (permalink) |
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Do you know what's ****ing weird? I had a dream that I saw a really well-done, artistically correct gif of an eagle as your avatar, and I remarked "Wow! He really went for it this time! That is cool!"
And it was a ****ing DREAM!!! I could have sworn it was real, to the extent that when I saw you still had the same one I was like, wtf??? Why oh why did I dream about your avvy? Answers on a postcard...
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