Just searched for Mrs Heelis (as BP became) and happened across this sad paragraph:
Her first chance at a life of her own ended in 1905 with the sudden death of her fiance - and editor - Norman Warne, from pernicious anaemia. He was 37. Her parents had been against that marriage and were still disapproving when, eight years later, she told them she wanted to marry William Heelis.
That is so sad and so young.💔Devastating. Quite a few years before treatment available
My dear friend did not live quite long enough to recieve 'combination therapy '
A very difficult 10 years of illness before scientists caught up with a treatment for 'living with A.I.Ds
He's was 33 . A good nurse.
I remember attending so many appointments/isolation wards dressed in plastic /masks then driving him home
Not so very different now with covid but without the stigma.
Let's hope vaccines get us out of the present situation.
His B12 plummeted too for some reason . Injections not advised or given. ?? Involved in so many illnesses I imagine .
It was tested though.
Odd isn't it ? when tested but not acted upon.
Still happening.
Amazing really Norman Warne got a diagnosis at that time.
I imagine it was only the people able to pay for the doctor .
So statistics of deaths of PA much lower than the reality.
Are doctors aware of this medical history or genuinely are taught b12 injection is a quick fix and stores f b12 for years??
I have alot of ex colleagues/friends still in the NHS . Some injecting it but apart from the training of the actual injection very little else.
I remember a nurse saying with such conviction my symptoms could not be caused by my low B12 .
Obviously alarming ne all over again as thought the fix had been found.
Was worried enough to refuse injection!! Until I'd seen a doctor.
Who I had to convince ( with the help of forum members knowledge) to continue with them.
Nothing else had been found .
I wasn't on any medications
Knowledge is power
😁
That's interesting - in the film he dies of pneumonia after getting soaked at the station seeing her off on the train.
- Bit more romantic than running after the train and his legs give way !
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