Bridging the Gap.

[Narwhal10]

Please know there are a great doctors out there. I was very fortunate to meet several. They listened as did I:- 

‘I bet you know more than me !’ ‘There is gluten in everything.’ ‘Do you know what is wrong with you ?’ One wonderful doctor used an ice breaker, I am honest and too blunt on occasions. In my defence, this is due to being very familiar with Boolean logic where the answer is either True or False.

So, when they said, ‘We look like bank robbers in these masks.’ I replied, ‘No’. 🙈

Plus, years ago, as part of a selection process, the group exercise was to plan a heist.

I listened to others brainstorm then was asked my thoughts. Grabbing a piece of paper, I marked a location of the bank, then determined 3 points away. You create distractions, here, here and here and continued. The others thought it too quirky, so we went with a previous plan.

My outlandish plan was based on quite simply overloading systems. Whether it is someone’s brain (mind) and/or a body or a man made structure. The system cannot cope.

1. Too Much Information (TMI), 🤯

2. Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) or Post Exertional Malaise.😴😵‍💫

3. An example of a structure is the collapse of the Silver Bridge.
This was a 3mm stress fracture. Please look at your finger nail, 3 mm is approximately a 1/4 of it.

With regards to P.A./(Autoimmune Metaplastic Atrophic Gastritis)/ B12 deficiency, too much homocysteine can occur. It is measured in μmol/L.

It is microscopic.

In just 1 of the body’s systems. High homocysteine means people can be at increased risk of thrombosis, stroke or heart attack (myocardial infarction).

In my heist, I had chosen 3 points of a triangle. Whilst medics are very aware of a particular German doctor who described the 3 categories for thrombosis called Virchow’s triad. So, if you are poorly and spend lots of time in bed. Please remember to point and flex your toes every hour and consider wearing some flight compression socks.

The image is of Si-o-se Pol (the Bridge of 33 Arches) and is a famous bridge in Isfahan.

It crosses the Zayanderud river.

Zayanderud means life giver in Persian, it is very much like hydroxycobalamin, methylcobalamin or Adenosylcobalamin.

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[Rexz]

Narwhal10, thank you for this very insightful post. PA is very systemic and lots of "little" processes begin to fray and break down and without proper treatment at some point will collapse. I thoroughly get the defective or fatigued bridge analogy.

Regarding doctor's... I recently had surgery that required general anesthesia so I had to have the obligatory pre-op testing and clearance. I was handed a piece of paper in my specialists office and when I asked "what's this for?" They said oh that's for you to give to your primary care physician (PCP) to run those tests and provide clearance for your surgery. I replied "I have no primary care doctor". As those words rang in my ears I realized for the first time that I'm my own PCP. Like an unlicensed general contractor building my own home. I was managing my own health and coordinating my care with this wonderful team if specialists, I've a Gastroenterologist, a oncologist and gastric surgeon, a ENT, an Allergist, an a Naturopathic Medicine Doctor. I've gone through maybe 18 doctors now before I assemble this bunch. All of them are fascinated by my condition. None of them except one had ever heard of PA/AMAG. Mostly they are just as fascinated as they would be if a fantastical unicorn had walked into their office. Anyway that long word vomit 🤮 was just to say I agree there are not only good but great doctors out there. They're not easy to find. One way I can tell is when I walk in with my very thick binder if medical records and a flow diagram of my illness my 20 minute visits invariably turn to an hour visit or more as they rifle through my records and my diagram and indulge themselves in unicorn fare! 😳

After all is not a unicorn nothing more than a narwhal with legs! 🦄

Rexz

[Narwhal10 in reply to Rexz]

Exactly, Rexz !!!

The aim is managing my own health and coordinating my care.

The CPU, the Central Processing Unit, in computer science terms. The unicorns do have a fanfare, it involves bugles and drums. They chant louder than Galatasaray Football stadium which only recorded a peak reading of 140.76 dBA. 🤪