And honestly, I’ve always had a family member who was my caregiver. KW: And so she didn’t have familial support in her chronic illness. But she pretty much needed to become a medical professional to get her point across to say, I need this done, and supply me with the right amount of care that I need, which is just completely baffling to me. And she had more access to research materials at her hospital. And that way she was able to get her point across a little more clearly or clearly from a doctor’s sense of how they usually speak. She says that she benefited from the fact that she worked in a hospital and started learning more of the shorthand and jargon. like, I could not believe how much research she had to do to get the proper care she needed. Sachi Argabright: The level of self advocacy that she had to go through. And so she basically had to be her own advocate and research endometriosis and basically walk into a doctor’s office, hand him her research, and say, I think I need this procedure. But doctors really didn’t take it seriously. So she actually is very fortunate in discovering it so early in her process. And on average, I think actually it takes several different doctors for someone to diagnose with endometriosis. Abby Norman starts this book while she’s in college when she first starts getting really sick, and she eventually discovers that she has endometriosis.
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