"Carol Cavallotti watched her body progressively crumble over a two-year period before finding out the fibromyalgia she was told she had was actually something far more serious - multiple myeloma.
As bad as that was, when time came to address the problem, she had one bit of good luck - her sister ........"
In the UK she would probably just have been written off as having a somatoform disorder and told to exercise more.
ReplyDeleteShe would probably not have had the extensive tests that found her cancer because such testing would have 'reinforced her aberrant illness belief'.