A must seeFrauen beim Arzt... The Golden Girls: Dorothy’s Struggle With CFS/ME
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The Golden Girls: Dorothy’s Struggle With CFS/ME – Awareness VideoElizabeth Sparrow
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The Golden Girls is my favourite TV show of all time, full of life’s struggles, dealt with through wonderful humour, inspiring wisdom and heart-warming love by four incredible women, who share a house in Miami. (If you’ve never seen it, do. It’s amazing!)
Between 1985 and 1992, the seven seasons covered a range of topics, all of which are still relevant today.
It was created by US TV producer Susan Harris. Susan suffered during the 1980s and, I believe, is still suffering now with what is termed predominantly in the US as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. It is also known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/neuroimmune disease.
The historical waters pertaining to said disease are murky in the extreme, and there is a wealth of information on the internet about its thought origin and the subsequent damage caused by medical professionals (loose term!) throughout the last several decades. Such neglect and life-threatening abuse is still ongoing today, twenty-nine years after this storyline aired, primarily at the hands of ignorant and arrogant psychiatrists.
As someone with considerable medical knowledge, I can tell you that AWARENESS of this brutal, unforgiving, unrelenting and cruelly debilitating disease is paramount, in order to move forwards with EFFECTIVE treatment.
I have selected the relevant sections from this special two-part episode Sick and Tired, from Season Five, which aired in 1989, to highlight how much HASN’T changed, as well as draw attention to the poignant words spoken by Dorothy throughout, and most especially at the end.
Having been on the receiving end of disbelief, extremely nasty comments and woefully erroneous assumptions, I thought, when rewatching the episodes recently, someone should do a video like this. I decided that someone should be me, since those four characters mean so much to me, and have literally helped me survive through suffering I wouldn't ever wish on another soul.
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I think oh I don't know what to do I
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just don't know I was in front of the
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class and I couldn't talk I was too
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tired to talk
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not that they would have listened they
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were too busy sniffing the white out
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they'd stolen from typing I have to
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excuse them early but I just cannot get
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rid of this flu and it keeps getting
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worse not better but it's been months
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now maybe it's not the flu flu doesn't
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last that long you ought to go back to
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dr. Raymond I did Blanche she said I'm
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fine get a second opinion she did she
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went at dr. Schlesinger well then you
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are fine now you want to hear my idea
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she's not fine Blanche look at her I
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didn't say she looks fine
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she looks like hail together darth
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you've got to see another doctor Raymond
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is not a specialist yeah but what kind
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of specialists do I need well just call
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up dr. Raymond ask him he'll he'll refer
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you you have to honey you're getting
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sicker and sicker results and how to
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keep this gown closed don't worry about
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it you won't be needing it Dorothy get
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dressed you're fine I beg your pardon
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we've run every test known to man
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they're all normal you can get dressed
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go home enjoy your life dr. Stevens I
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was always hoping and then I I came down
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with this flu I can't get rid of it I've
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been sick for five months now I have a
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constant sore throat swollen glands
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fevers my muscles ache and are weak I am
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totally exhausted all the time
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I know I know you told me well maybe it
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bears repeating
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maybe you still think i'm lorraine
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maslansky
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mocha Dorothy can ask you a personal
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question
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yes you're divorced yes how's your own
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social life do you do you see men what
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in the world of seeing men have to do
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with anything
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Dorothy we know for a fact that if
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people are not happy and lonely people
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aren't but they get all kinds of
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symptoms depression fatigue symptoms
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very much like the ones you described
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look dr. Stevens I don't think you
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understand so I'm gonna tell you again I
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am at a point now where I am so
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exhausted that sometimes I cannot speak
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literally cannot speak there are days
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when I can't get out of bed like raising
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my arms to wash my hair in the shower is
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too exhausting for me I can't even do
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that I have heart palpitations I can't
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concentrate I forget things I I get
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confused look Dorothy I don't believe
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you're sick but you do now you want to
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pursue this you want to spend more money
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that's fine with me
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so go to New York see the man I studied
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with he's the best neurologist there is
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I don't know anyone better if you have
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anything anything at all he'll find it
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what what a half hours I thought you
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died what's wrong with you nothing who
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are you I'm the doctor
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we'll see about that I'm Dorothy's
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mother and I want to know what's wrong
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with her and don't tell me nothing
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because I know there's something wrong
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with her mother's no look ma I'll talk
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to you about it later
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your daughter is fine mrs. Petrillo 100%
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100%
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tip-top yep top then mr. 100% tip-top
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why Bella she feel like hell mom I gotta
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hear this
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it could be functional functional mental
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mental well let me tell you something
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mister 100% tip-top mental my daughter
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may be no spring chicken and her jaw
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might crack when she chews and she may
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have noticeable trouble digesting raw
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vegetables but one thing she's not is
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mental thanks mom
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Rose gets to go lunch whenever I don't
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feel well Rose makes me feel okay what
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is she your best friend Rose knows I'm
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sick well I know you're sick God knows
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you tell me all the time waste
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Rose Nylund in New York it's gonna be a
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great trip so what are you doing here
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you've seen everybody nobody found
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anything wrong with you and between
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their work ups and mind and no more
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tests to run yeah but I know it's boring
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your main complaint is you're tired I
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get tired too it's called getting old
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dr. Budd that's not what this is I am
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sick I've had to give up my job because
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I was too tired to do it how'd you get
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here
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I flew no to my office and taxi and from
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the taxi but how did I get from the taxi
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to your office not a hard question
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I walked right you walked you're not
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sick Dorothy the people I see can't walk
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they can't swallow some of them can't
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breathe look don't take this the wrong
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way but have you ever thought about
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seeing a psychiatrist I have seen too
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here are their letters they both say
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there was nothing psychologically wrong
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with me they believe it is physical
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if the hell that ain't no psychiatry is
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not a science then why did you suggest I
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see one because what you have is not
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scientific what else was I going to do
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is send you to New Mexico to a shaman
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there's nothing wrong with you Dorothy
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except what happens to all of us in case
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you haven't noticed you're not 30 take a
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cruise doing go to a hypnotist change
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your hair color my wife became a blonde
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she's a new woman girl Oh Oh Rose that's
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not it what is it Dorothy what happened
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ah maybe I am crazy nobody believes me
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everybody thinks I'm crazy maybe I am
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maybe I'm really crazy Oh Dorothy you
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are not crazy I mean you are absolutely
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not crazy I've seen the way you walk
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I've seen a wiped out you get you're not
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crazy honey you're sick I think so too I
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really do but nobody believes me doctors
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don't know everything Dorothy you're
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right I mean they think they do but they
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don't you're right how is she white
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they'll be depressed even though she
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tries to hide it Sophia she's gonna be
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okay I know it she will be Sophia now
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she's tough you know there are all sorts
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of things that people get that they
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can't diagnose and then they disappear
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just as mysteriously as they can
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I think the worst thing in the world is
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if your child dies before you do Sophia
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Dorothy is not going to die I know that
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she'll be fine I know why do you do that
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Rose why do you make up stories it
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wouldn't feel right to live anymore you
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know if the kid dies it wouldn't feel
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fettling Sophia Dorothy's not dying how
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do you know Rose I know oh now honey
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she's right
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I know too and I'm a writer I see things
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more clearly than the average person my
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perceptions are Keena Sophia we have all
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seen our husbands die we know what that
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is except for how she was getting a
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manicure pedicure Wow I made you
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something and I've seen more death and
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dying than any of you over the past five
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months we've seen a perfectly healthy
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energetic woman waste away she can't do
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anything anymore
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so what difference does it make that
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they don't have a name for it yet it's
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still something there were lots of
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diseases they didn't have a name for you
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think they had a name for the Black
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Plague when one guy had it thousands had
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to die before they knew what it was
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Dorothy could be dying and they just
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don't know it
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well as far as doctors go you've
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certainly seen the best the best don't
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exist anymore the best are dead well I
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don't know about you're the exception I
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didn't mean you
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so do you think I'm crazy too Dorothy I
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think you're very sane just because the
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doctor hasn't found something does it
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mean there isn't something there are you
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serious well how come you know that and
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they don't
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first of all dear I know you you're a
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stable person and if you say you're sick
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you probably are sick no I want you to
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see Michael Chang he's a virologist on
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staff here at the hospital
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you know there are all kinds of diseases
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we didn't know about before look at Lyme
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disease Ari am I gonna die I'm afraid so
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you really think so sooner or later I
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guarantee it unless of course the
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Japanese come up with something come on
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yes his name in number nine God what
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handle Oh Dorothy you were terrific what
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are you going o to see that specialist
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that Harry recommended wipe off your
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makeup what you look too healthy maybe
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that's why they don't believe you you
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don't look sick
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[Laughter]
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she should go they believe her you've
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seen some wonderful doctors but I really
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can't agree with their findings there
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are new diseases arising all the time
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things that we don't necessarily have
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tests for but that doesn't mean the
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disease's don't exist theatric dr. Chang
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please well I think that you are sick I
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think you have something called chronic
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fatigue syndrome it's fairly recent
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there are many theories about it but
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most of us believe it's a virus it just
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has not been identified yet doctors just
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kept telling me I was depressed
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depression can make a person feel tired
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but depression doesn't start suddenly
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give you swollen glands sore throat and
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all the other symptoms now there are
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certain blood tests which we'll do and
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if those results are abnormal that
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combined with the exclusion of the other
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diseases will compose a profile that
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actually thousands of people fit so I
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really have something real I would say
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you most certainly do but we should have
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our answers in a couple of weeks how
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long will it last I mean will it go away
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does it get worse dude does anyone die
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from it well no one has died from it we
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don't know how long it lasts some people
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seem to recover in months some still
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happen after 10 years but that happens
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in other diseases as well you take
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multiple sclerosis some people have
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20-year emissions others wind up in
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wheelchairs they are variations I can
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say at this point is try to adapt to it
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rest when you need to eat well eliminate
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stress if you can right now there is no
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cure and no one thing that relieves
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symptoms in everyone right now I'm
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afraid you'll just have to live with it
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why didn't they tell me all those
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doctors I saw I'm sure some of them
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weren't familiar with it and the ones
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who have heard about it sometimes have
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trouble believing it exists since
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they're not able to see it under their
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microscopes just yet
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those colleagues of mine unfortunately
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tend to blame the victim I can't tell
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you what a relief this is I'm sure are
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there any other questions that I could
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answer for you not now not that I can
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think of maybe later right now I I can't
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even think straight well if there are no
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more questions I'll order some bloodwork
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this is my treat it is a celebration
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what are we celebrating my daughter
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found out she has a debilitating disease
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and it has a name I am thrilled we all
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are well of course congratulations
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champagne it is I can't tell you what a
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relief it is to just be sick not sick
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and crazy and to know what I have and
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that there are a lot of other people who
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have the same thing I don't like the
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name I think I'll have a better name
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that's what dr. Chang said chronic
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fatigue syndrome makes it sound like I'm
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just a tired person when it is so much
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more than that
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it's dr. Farr at the neurologist I saw
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in New York the one who told me I was
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just getting old and to go see a
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psychiatrist they don't make a scene
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order without
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dr. bird yes you probably don't remember
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me but you told me I wasn't sick do you
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remember you told me I was just getting
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old I'm sorry I really don't remember
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maybe you're getting over that's a
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little joke well I tell you doctor but I
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really am sick I have chronic fatigue
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syndrome that is a real illness you can
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check with the Center for Disease
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Control oh well I'm sorry about that
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well I'm glad at least I know I have
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something I'm sure well I see not so
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fast there are some things I have to say
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there are a lot of things that I have to
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say words can't express what I have to
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say what I went through what you put me
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through I can't do this in a restaurant
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good but I will
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Louis who is this person look miss sit I
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sat for you long enough
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dr. Budd I came to you sick sick and
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scared and you dismissed me you didn't
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have the answer and instead of saying
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I'm sorry I don't know what's wrong with
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you
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you made me feel crazy like like I had
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made it all up you dismissed me it made
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me feel like a child a fool on your
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rhotic who was wasting your precious
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time is that is that your caring
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profession is that healing no one
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deserves that kind of treatment dr. Budd
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no one I suspect that I've been a man I
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might have been taking a little bit more
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seriously and not told to go to a
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hairdresser look I am NOT going to sit
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here anymore Louis
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I don't know where you doctors lose your
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humanity but you lose it you know if all
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of you at the beginning of your careers
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could get very sick and very scared for
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a while you probably learn more from
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that than anything else you'd better
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start listening to your patients they
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need to be heard they need caring they
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need compassion they need attending to
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you know someday doctor but you're gonna
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be on the other side of the table and as
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angry as I am and as angry as I always
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will be
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I still wish you a better doctor than
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you were to me
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[Applause]
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you
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