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one said my headaches and weakness down my arms was caused by excessive alcohol consumption.
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Did you tell her you'd cut back to straight Listerine??
Man, if it weren't so sad it would be funny.
One NS said my symptoms were 'psychological' because after 2 weeks in the hospital (in the wrong ward) he didn't find anything abnormal in his exam of me beyond the pain. He didn't have the MRI report--which I hadn't been given but had been told by an intern 'nothing unusual; you're complaining about nothing'
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When I exploded and basically called him both arrogant and incompetent, he went and got the MRI report himself and saw 'massive discal hernia C6-C7 with cord impingement'. OOPSIE, someone screwed up just a tad....(YA THINK??!)
From there I found my way from 'rheumatology' to neurosurgery' and my NS, and finally got the quality treatment we all deserve.
So the emoticon order for Round 1 was:
(Round 2 in progress...)
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