Horror in Romania

I had an appointment with a rheumatologist set up in Romania and the soonest we could get was TWO AND A HALF MONTHS away. That was at the beginning of me being sick. I ended up getting too sick and going home and seeing a rheumatologist within a week rather than the three weeks left I had to wait to see a rheumatologist in Romania.

And no, I said that I felt it in my heart that I was dying. I never said I felt in my heart that I had Zika. I figured I had to have something not so complicated as an autoimmune disease, since I'm only 21-years-old and suddenly became sick out of no where. Like I said, we made the appointment the first time a doctor suggested it was a rheumatologist appointment. Until the appointment there was nothing anyone could do for me so I came home.

You are very rude. I know what it's like in Canada, I was raised in St. Leonard, Quebec. My whole family resides there except for me and my parents. So I'm back and forth there all of the time. When I've been to the hospital there it sure seems the same to me. Maybe there's something that I'm missing, more affordable or something? But the wait times, quality of service, and prices seemed the same. American hospitals seem pretty damn luxurious to me. And our doctors, at least the ones I've seen, really genuinely care about their patients.

I had a xanax thrown in my mouth without my permission, and was then cursed at by the lady. All the blood tests they took in Romania "looked normal, " but somehow in the USA they were completely off and I was apparently knocking at death's door. They told me having a large lesion on my brain was normal. I laid there in pain, while they did nothing for me whatsoever. And I'm sorry, if a nurse came in your house and shit on your floor would you not be shocked? Would you not be shocked if you stayed in a hospital where there's flies everywhere and when a senile lady had an accident she has to clean it up herself? I'd like to see you go through what I went through and not come home and want to tell the quite interesting story.

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