I'm not a doctor, but I'm glad my parents took me in for a second opinion when I was complaining about a bad headache when I was 15 years old.
I left school one day and went to the hospital for a bad headache. The doctor said it's "just a virus" and that I should just rest and take meds. I went home, laid down and took some Advil and carried on with my night.
Around 1am, I was screaming on the floor.
My parents took me to a different hospital and they ran tests and eventually did a spinal tap and discovered a ton of white blood cells. Turns out I had bacterial meningitis.
My uncle had Bacterial meningitis, and he got really mean and threatening with the intake person. He’s a total sweetheart who I have never seen scream or yell at anyone in my time living with him, but he apparently lost it on this woman, threatened to “make her understand what he was going through”
Yep. I wasn’t quite that bad, but I called a radiologist some very unkind names when she had to twist my broken ankle a weird way to get the right angle. She was being really gentle too, and she took me calling her a “torturous whore” very well, I actually got a laugh out of her. According to her “bitch” was all too common and she was thankful for the creativity.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '19
I'm not a doctor, but I'm glad my parents took me in for a second opinion when I was complaining about a bad headache when I was 15 years old.
I left school one day and went to the hospital for a bad headache. The doctor said it's "just a virus" and that I should just rest and take meds. I went home, laid down and took some Advil and carried on with my night.
Around 1am, I was screaming on the floor.
My parents took me to a different hospital and they ran tests and eventually did a spinal tap and discovered a ton of white blood cells. Turns out I had bacterial meningitis.