What single disease is like having arthritis, heart failure, dementia, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, a bacterial infection, and a thyroid disorder, all at the same time? Or was I suffering from several of the above? Struggling through eight mysterious months of symptoms that three doctors couldn’t decipher, I knew something was wrong with me, but there were no positive tests to prove it.

Travel with me through my mysterious array of symptoms, some as humorous as they are deadly, in my search for the correct diagnosis. After months of doctors, labs, and physical therapy visits, I had nothing left to go on but my faith, compassionate friends, and what was left of my mental abilities to search online for some disorder that sounded right. At last a friend steered me toward a specialist that could help me, before I slipped off into a place where I could no longer help myself.