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While going on walks, they had to take multiple breaks because she got tired so often.
Sadly, because of how much pain she’s in, she wishes that her illness would end her life.
Right now, she is confined to her bed once every two weeks at the minimum. She is in horrible pain for about five to ten days a month, usually from PCOS or migraines.
“I am taking 12 pills a day. There is a big chance I will need to use a nasal tube to get my nutrition because the usual nausea medication (which works on about 90 to 95 percent of people), which is also supposed to make me digest foods at a normal pace, isn’t working,” she explained.
She isn’t able to move quickly or stand up quickly if she has to. If she tries to do so, she feels dizzy and falls over.
The worst illnesses that she’s been diagnosed with don’t have any cures that medical experts have yet discovered. Others with these diagnoses only have the option of relying on medication in the hopes of better coping with their symptoms.
This means that, at best, she would be bedridden once a month at the very least, but most likely more than that.
For all of her life, she will have to cope with these illnesses and the periods when her symptoms are worse.
“I am not able to do my job as I am supposed to. I need to be sitting down most of the time, so surgeries are mostly off the books for me. I can’t rush to assist a person in need. I can’t use too much energy to help someone get up or sit down,” she shared.
Along with all of these typical work tasks she would be expected to perform as a doctor, she also wouldn’t have the physical stamina to be on-call for 18 hours or more. Plus, even standing at the bedside of a patient in order to get their clinical history would be too much for her.
Upon reflection, she realizes that she would physically struggle to do most of the things she’d need to do as part of her job as a doctor.
