one family’s story of advocacy and hope [PODCAST]

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On this episode, we now have a particular visitor, Laura Fernando, a affected person advocate, who shares her heart-wrenching story of her daughter Lily’s medical journey with COVID-19 and different well being circumstances. Becoming a member of her and Lily is Linda Bluestein, an integrative medication doctor.

Lily was a wholesome 12-year-old when she contracted COVID-19 in June 2020. Regardless of recovering from the preliminary signs, her daughter by no means totally regained her well being. She later contracted a tick-borne sickness, and her well being declined quickly. Regardless of working arduous in bodily and occupational remedy, her daughter’s well being worsened when she contracted COVID-19 a second time in January 2022.

Laura shares the struggles of discovering a doctor who understood her daughter’s distinctive and complicated medical wants and the way one doctor’s actions led to a traumatic expertise for her daughter and household. However, they finally discovered hope and therapeutic with an autonomic specialist group of a neurologist and a gastroenterologist who believed in her daughter and took the time to hearken to their narrative and verify her earlier medical appointments.

By means of this episode, the company talk about the significance of discovering the best doctor, advocating for your self and your family members within the well being care system, and the impression of trauma on the affected person’s and their household’s psychological and emotional well-being.

Tune in to listen to an inspiring story of hope and therapeutic and the way one household’s perseverance led to a brighter future for his or her daughter.

Laura and Lily Fernando are affected person advocates. Linda Bluestein is an integrative medication doctor.

They share their tales and talk about the KevinMD article, “My daughter and COVID: a tale of 3 doctors.”

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