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Old 12-30-2017, 01:31 PM   #378 (permalink)
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I was trying to check someone's page on Facebook but she must have deleted it. A friend of mine died of something similar to what your mother apparently had. I forgot the name of the condition but it involved an artery that was affecting her eating. I do remember her sister saying that the skin was hanging from her at the end. Anyway, I'm glad your Mom pulled through, Charles.
I honestly can't remember the name of the disease, and it's rare enough that some Googling isn't definitive, but maybe this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median...ament_syndrome.

It was miserable though. She couldn't eat, when she did it would be tiny amounts, and she'd get debilitatingly nauseated for literally days afterward. She was a skeleton by the end, and she's still skinny as **** now. It was long term (about two years), and actually watching someone die of it would have been awful. And ever learning afterward that the doctors passed it off as anorexia would have made me want to kill an MD very painfully. My grandfather's knowledge and medical connections very literally saved her life, and I can imagine many people dying due to unintentional medical neglect.
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