Thursday, May 6, 2010

You Only Know Yourself

The other day I had a not to pleasant reminder that "You Only Know Yourself". The situation is that I went to the ER with a certain complaint. It was a rather serious complaint. After spending a day in the hospital I was accused of making the whole thing up.

This caused me to take pause. You know in life we entrust our well being to many different people, doctors, therapists, etc. We operate on the assumption that they know what is best for us and we should trust them explicitly. After all they are the experts. I came to realize that they do not know everything. A lot of times when they cannot understand something they do not recognize that they do not know and do not seek to find an acceptable explanation. In this case they conveniently ignored an very obvious cause, because it did not fit what their assumption was, and instead blamed the patient for "making the whole thing up."

I learned the hard way. You know your own body better than any doctor will know or cares to even to bother to know. When you know something is wrong. Fight for it. Do not let anyone try to tell you that what you are feeling is not real. It is not their body so what is it to them. Stay strong do not give up.