It's not lupus!
I correctly diagnosed myself with CRS.
what a gutsy thing to do.....and so young already.
It's not lupus!
What a girl! Great story to post! Especially since with rationed healthcare, we all might be sent home with slides to perform the analysis at home. Who needs steenkin’ doctors when the One is in charge?
Exactly how did she get samples of her intestines?
When I was in my early twenties I spent years going doctor to doctor telling me a certain pain I had that was debilitating was in my head. I never believed this and continued to pursue new opinions. It took two to three years to find the right doctor who immediately knew what I had, went in and did the surgery to get rid of the extensive connective tissue that had wrapped around my main nerve and compressed it and had caused my problem. This surgery changed my life forever because I no longer had to live with extraordinary pain.
I trusted my instincts and did my research, while keeping an open mind and realizing doctor's are just humans too. Sometimes really arrogant humans.
Another reason we don't need socialized medicine in this country.
She will be thrown in jail for practicing medicine without a license, and failure to carry medical malpractice insurance!
Hypochondriacs everywhere are smiling.
“”I snapped a picture of it on the microscope and e-mailed it to the pathologist,” Welch said. “Within 24 hours, he sent back an e-mail saying yes, this is a granuloma.”
Why hadn’t a pathologist already reviewed these slides when they were first taken? Or perhaps this was the first time a competent pathologist reviewed them?
:’)
Self-diagnosis, along with arguing with the death panels, er, doctors, will be illegal under Obamacare.
Where did she get the slide?
How did she know it was her tissue?