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My sister's dying - ideas please!
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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 348342" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>If there's any hope left at all, I'm all for firing the doctor too! A few years ago a relative became seriously ill with mysterious symptoms. Her husband insisted on keeping her at a hospital that had treated him successfully, and 3 weeks went by without any answers while deteriorated. Finally they took her to a well known research hosptial and within 24 hours they had her diagnosed. In her case, the weeks didn't matter to the outcome as the disease she had was always fatal, but had it been something else it could have made a difference. Plus the weeks of angst for the family, along with the costs of repeated diagnostic tests that all led back to the same no answers. Marg, I sincerely applaud you for the hunt--I'd come across my relative's condition (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) in a google search of symptoms but dismissed it because it was so very rare. If the docs had bothered to consult other neurologists, or even had bothered with a simple online search they might have arrived to the answer much sooner.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 348342, member: 701"] If there's any hope left at all, I'm all for firing the doctor too! A few years ago a relative became seriously ill with mysterious symptoms. Her husband insisted on keeping her at a hospital that had treated him successfully, and 3 weeks went by without any answers while deteriorated. Finally they took her to a well known research hosptial and within 24 hours they had her diagnosed. In her case, the weeks didn't matter to the outcome as the disease she had was always fatal, but had it been something else it could have made a difference. Plus the weeks of angst for the family, along with the costs of repeated diagnostic tests that all led back to the same no answers. Marg, I sincerely applaud you for the hunt--I'd come across my relative's condition (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) in a google search of symptoms but dismissed it because it was so very rare. If the docs had bothered to consult other neurologists, or even had bothered with a simple online search they might have arrived to the answer much sooner. [/QUOTE]
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