When One Old-School Doctor Finally Connected the Dots
A fill-in doctor solved in five minutes what specialists missed for a year — by simply asking what she was eating and taking.
This one I still laugh about. And then I get a little angry. And then I laugh again.
I'd gone in for something else entirely — some small thing I genuinely can't even remember now, which tells you how little it mattered next to what happened. My regular doctor, whom I adore, was out. So I got the fill-in. An older man. Old-school. The kind who's been doing this so long he's seen every trend come and go twice.
We were talking through whatever I'd come in for, and I started telling him about the rest of it. The kidney failure. The protein in my urine. The months I'd spent unraveling.
He didn't flinch. He just said, let me pull up your old bloodwork and see how far off you really were.
And while he's scrolling, not even looking up, he asks — I see you're in your fifties. Are you on a keto diet? Taking collagen?
I about laughed out loud. Umm. Yes. I literally sell collagen. SHOP MY COLLAGEN SUPPLEMENT