Lesson Learned
Have you every felt like a broken toy? Today I felt like baby doll with matted hair whose arm had been twisted off by some mean boy. I was going again to find someone to fix me. “Hello? I could use some help here? Something isn’t quite right.” Yes, it’s been over three months since I had immunotherapy. Miraculously though, my body hasn’t just snapped back. I’m left with an adrenal insufficiency that no one has still fully explained. Except to say, here is some hydrocortisone, take it like this twice daily. My primary physician didn’t want to meddle where another physician was already in charge. He agreed I should see an Endocrinologist, but there wasn’t much light he shed on the situation. I was appalled. Never have I discharged a patient from the hospital and given them a blood glucose machine, a bottle of Metformin and said, “you have diabetes now, take this medicine, use this machine.” Hopef...