Sue, that's the first thing Lisa did was PM me about gettin on some heme meds. They sure would have been handy when I was sick in September - 2 nights in hospital, the all-in-my-head episode. Actually they agreed it was something when my hemoglobin dropped... hmm... we chalked it up to spherocytosis at that time. Wonder if it was porphyria. I bet getting treated properly would have helped in recovery time. Live and learn, I guess.
It still bugs me that there was one very arrogant doctor who was incredibly rude to me in the ER one of those nights - insisting over and over it was psychological and I needed a shrink. No joke. Would it be terrible if I tracked him down to have a word with him? Not anything angry, I'd be sure to keep it together, but I just wouldn't want this to happen to anyone else under his care again. I just think he should know, and to keep it in mind that not all patients who present with nonspecific symptoms and normal preliminary bloodwork are fabricating an illness.
We do med rounds and presentations at work all the time with docs, residents, and med students. Sometimes I'm tempted to keep my name out of it and just do a presentation on this past couple of years to some of the new med students.
