“There’s nothing wrong with you.”

Seven years she was left undiagnosed and therefore untreated. The doctors said “lets rule everything out”. Exam and after exam, time and money wasted. Frustration rising and discouragement.

The process of elimination is a fine system if you have an excess of time, money and energy. Most people have a strong limit on all three. The healthcare system fails us when it doesn’t see the value of time.

The process of elimination is a system that’s good until it takes seven years of your life and your health. We trust in the medical system to care for us but they are not in a hurry to cure us unless our life is on the line. It has to be urgent for the speed of finding a solution needs to be found.

But what of slow declines? What of days of suffering and fear? That is also a decline of the mind, body and soul. People don’t have time to jump from doctor’s visit to hospital to diagnosis center only to be treated like a number.

Only to be told “there’s nothing wrong with you.”