A Patient's Journey : Pemphigus vulgaris  

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Lowe, Siri

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 335 no. 7630 (Dec. 2007), page 1152.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2007.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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When my mouth and tongue suddenly became badly blistered in 1995, I never suspected there could be anything seriously wrong with me—this was surely just some crazy infection in my mouth. But it was pemphigus vulgaris, a rare, life threatening, autoimmune disease affecting skin and mucous membranes, and, of course, I'd never heard of it in my life. I deteriorated quickly and in only five weeks moved from being strong and healthy to being unable to eat solid food, drinking through a straw, and being in agonising pain. I remember walking the London streets in a total daze thinking, "This can't be true, it's like the script of a bad television play." I had no idea how living with a chronic disease would change my life. There's no cure for pemphigus. No smart drug to take it all away. It is nearly always controllable, but that control comes at a . . .

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