Sarah Gonzalez
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And then that same feeling that she felt on the pecan farm comes back.
She recognized it immediately.
And I knew it was going to get worse.
And I said, okay, I got to go.
This is it.
It's happening again.
I don't know what's going on.
She was back to the ER, but this time the pain was way, way worse.
I felt like I was dying.
Literally felt like I was dying.
They gave me very strong pain medicine.
And even then I could still feel the pain.
They couldn't bring her pain down at all for two days, even with fentanyl.
Now, of course, everyone asked all the standard stuff like what Carol ate.
They did blood tests, CT scans.
They couldn't find anything.
Something in her liver was off, but they didn't know why.
And Carol didn't know it yet.
But at the same time, people all over the U.S.
were also showing up in emergency rooms with extreme pain like Carol and what looked like acute liver failure.