2025-11-28
Ruby.
I wasn't willing to risk being held back in boot camp, so I just kept pushing through.
The pain got so bad.
Within an instant, it just kind of went black.
In this letter she wrote, when I woke up, I woke up to a crime scene.
I'm physically dying.
Only now that we're starting to have these conversations and talk about how a lot of women,
they dismissal and having their complaints ignored.
She had like turned the screen away from me.
The energy in the room shifted.
The radiology department, they all turned their head and looked at me.
I walked out of that ultrasound thinking I had cancer.
I was terrified of the unknown.
How terrifying would it be to fight an unknown enemy?
One you didn't recognize and didn't see coming.
What if that enemy was coming from within?
A disease that even doctors couldn't identify.
Nearly half of Americans suffer from some chronic illness and many struggle for an accurate diagnosis.
These are their stories.
I'm Lauren Bright-Pacheco and this is Symptomatic.