Jennifer 2 notices that doctors no longer mention getting better.
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So yeah, so it’s been almost two years but despite the number of specialists I have seen, none of whom has ever questioned me – in fact, everybody has been very empathetic and very supportive. But yeah, they can find things, “Yes, your heart is enlarged,” you know, and this and that, but I guess what I want to emphasize is that even with access to all the specialists, no one has been able to prescribe anything that actually makes a difference and now no doctor speaks of getting better anymore. In the beginning it was, but now everybody just speaks of in terms of managing, it’s just managing.
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