My pediatrician had called my mom one late afternoon, and she was excited, well she had heard about this new disease called PANS and it could be the answer to everything. She explained to us as good as she could that its a disease where your immune system starts attacking your brain after having a strep infection, causing the symptoms that I had been having and some people even get tics, Lyme disease and Tourettes. It did kind of make sense though, I had had a strep infection just barely a year ago at that time. We were hopeful.
Well we went to see the only doctor that specialized in this disease, and after an hour and a half of explaining everything that had happened to me in the past year, she finally diagnosed me, we couldn't believe it, she had saved me. This was the happiest day of my life, because that sense of relief that I got, well that was incomparable, I had a diagnosis. You probably think that getting a diagnosis is a bad thing because it means that you have a disease. But for us, well we already knew something was wrong, but nobody could figure out what, so my diagnosis was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. I could get cured.
Everything would get better from this day on, all those times I had been told to "stay strong" they had all been worth it, and though we had a long road of recovery ahead, we had made it through the worst part.
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A lot can happen in a year, but I never expected this.
Non-FictionPANS stands for Pediatric Acute Autoimmune Syndrome, the disease i was diagnosed with in April 2014 after a year of not knowing what was wrong. Researchers are only beginning to study and understand this syndrome, and therefore there are a lot of un...
