Ross Douthat
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then while we were in the process of the move, while we were still in Washington, but had been up there and done the inspection and rather fatefully tromped through the overgrown fields, I got sick.
And I got sick in a very strange way with all kinds of weird migratory body pain, insomnia, problems in my gut, diarrhea, eventually phantom heart attack.
attacks and spent several months in DC before we actually made the move seeing doctor after doctor after doctor, being completely unable to figure out what was actually wrong.
So basically, at the point where that excerpt broke off, I was about to have this weird evening when it went from being a head-neck problem to being this full body feeling where there was a baseline feeling of dizziness, quasi-dissociation.
It almost felt like half my body wasn't properly connected to the
Other half, there was tingling in my extremities, weird little muscle twitches.
And that was sort of the baseline, and then layered on top of that, there would be these flares of increasingly strong and always migratory pain that would be in a shoulder one day, your spine the next, your foot the next, and then most frighteningly at a certain point in
in my chest that sent me to the emergency room thinking that maybe I was having a heart attack.
And connected to this then was an inability to sleep at all.
If I took a strong dose of sleeping pills, I could fall asleep.
But there was very little that actually removed the symptoms.
And I took mild painkillers, I tried Xanax and antidepressants, because not surprisingly, when the doctors were struggling to find anything wrong, they thought, well, this is stress related.
It's a nervous disorder, nervous breakdown of some kind.
So I tried things like that with very little effect in those months.
I felt like very quickly I could put myself in the shoes of the doctors.
So, you know, this man shows up who wants to talk to them and has what to him is clearly a severe problem, but there isn't any normal simple diagnosis to be offered.
There isn't anything showing up on blood work.
And the symptoms are so various that once you get past the initial round of generalists
And start getting sent to specialists.
The gastroenterologist isn't going to make heads or tails of you saying, Well, I have pain in my stomach, but also in my toes, right?
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