Day 4

The most discouraging thing a doctor ever said to me about my symptoms was when, after all the efforts I had made to try to recover — and not having fully succeeded — they told me I was too down and that taking a medication might help. But also, at the end of the hospital rehabilitation program, during discharge, I had all the doctors around me and none of them could give me an explanation as to why, after recovering my shoulder, I was now experiencing terrible pain in my mouth, couldn’t open it, and it was completely crooked!
Same at the follow-up visit. A resident doctor even wanted to secretly take me to a posture specialist — a so-called luminary in the field. What stayed with me the most was the sense of dismay they projected onto me.