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We don't know what's wrong with you. Now, go away.
My daughter recovered from her liver transplant in record time--and now we're paying for it (in the karmic sense). We're two weeks into the new school year, and I think she's only gone to school for 3 1/2 days. (She's a freshman in high school, and she really wants to go to school!) Her symptoms are vague (back pain, abdominal pain, nausea, dizziness) making a diagnosis difficult. Tests have been run, so we've been able to figure out what it is not (rejection, pancreatitis, appendicitis, intestinal blockage, etc.), but we still don't know what it is.
Yesterday, we spent twelve hours in the Emergency Room, and in the end they sent us home still having no clue what's wrong with her. They knew it wasn't anything immediately life threatening, and they had no good reason to keep her--especially over the weekend when her doctor wouldn't be there. But for my daughter, that was the breaking point. She's never gone to the hospital and not gotten a diagnosis before; she's never gone to the hospital and left feeling worse than when she came in before. Upon hearing that she was being discharged, she broke down crying.
I had an idea when we got home, so we're about to test it out. Most of her symptoms might be explained by her intestinal flora being thrown out of whack by the antibiotics she's taking. She used to take acidophilus, but the doctor had her stop when she had her transplant. I just asked the doctor to let her resume taking it. Cross your fingers that it helps!
Yesterday, we spent twelve hours in the Emergency Room, and in the end they sent us home still having no clue what's wrong with her. They knew it wasn't anything immediately life threatening, and they had no good reason to keep her--especially over the weekend when her doctor wouldn't be there. But for my daughter, that was the breaking point. She's never gone to the hospital and not gotten a diagnosis before; she's never gone to the hospital and left feeling worse than when she came in before. Upon hearing that she was being discharged, she broke down crying.
I had an idea when we got home, so we're about to test it out. Most of her symptoms might be explained by her intestinal flora being thrown out of whack by the antibiotics she's taking. She used to take acidophilus, but the doctor had her stop when she had her transplant. I just asked the doctor to let her resume taking it. Cross your fingers that it helps!