This is what I said about it elsewhere (yes, it's somewhat self-deprecating, but you should expect that from me by now, right?):
Moral of the story: trust yourself, your own feelings/body, and your symptoms, before you trust some arsehole doctor who insists that they know best, be it Covid (or MS for me), or whatever!!
And keep pushing. Don't give up because the bureaucrats and medical arseholes try to push you away, and insist that you are "making it up", or even that it "isn't their problem" (jesus, that hurts to write, given my proximity to this sort of thing). Keep pushing. Find a different doctor. Go to a different medical service. Just... Don't give up. Let Eva Cassidy (melanoma) and this girl, be examples to us that sometimes doctors (and parents/family, for that matter) do not know what is best for us, or our health...
Probably lucky that this girl is/was a law student, and is smart enough, and self-aware enough, to know that she was right, and the doctors weren't, in this case...
I doubt I would have had the guts she did, especially at 20, unfortunately. :-/ In fact, I know for a fact that I didn't...
So... I hope that her courage, and insistence on getting proper treatment, might have saved her life, but... Who knows, I guess?!
This is what I said about it elsewhere (yes, it's somewhat self-deprecating, but you should expect that from me by now, right?):
Moral of the story: trust yourself, your own feelings/body, and your symptoms, before you trust some arsehole doctor who insists that they know best, be it Covid (or MS for me), or whatever!!
And keep pushing. Don't give up because the bureaucrats and medical arseholes try to push you away, and insist that you are "making it up", or even that it "isn't their problem" (jesus, that hurts to write, given my proximity to this sort of thing). Keep pushing. Find a different doctor. Go to a different medical service. Just... Don't give up. Let Eva Cassidy (melanoma) and this girl, be examples to us that sometimes doctors (and parents/family, for that matter) do not know what is best for us, or our health...
Probably lucky that this girl is/was a law student, and is smart enough, and self-aware enough, to know that she was right, and the doctors weren't, in this case...
I doubt I would have had the guts she did, especially at 20, unfortunately. :-/ In fact, I know for a fact that I didn't...
So... I hope that her courage, and insistence on getting proper treatment, might have saved her life, but... Who knows, I guess?!