Lori talks about her doctor dismissing her symptoms as just part of being a woman.
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And they again were just like, ‘No, you’re fine’ and the doctor came back to me with a questionnaire for anxiety in the congenital – adult congenital cardiac patient and said, ‘Well, fill this out because it’s your – you know this is what it sounds like is happening – because you’ve been through a lot.’ Then the doctor added, ‘You’re a woman, you’re hormonal, you’re in school, you’re dealing with the grief of your mother, it’s got to be anxiety’ and I got mad and I said, ‘I’m not leaving until I have a heart cath.’ because I knew what I needed. And so they did the heart cath. and they came right back to me and they said ‘OK, we have to do your second heart surgery.’ The first one as an adult and I was basically like, ‘I told you something was wrong. I know my body.’
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