The Foreword to No More Tears: A Physician-Turned Patient Inspires Recovery, by Dr. David S. Cannom MD, Cardiologist Extraordinaire

This Revised Edition is Presently In Press, as an Update to How Much Things Changed in the Last 10 years. For Those That Do Not Know, I Survived a Traumatic Brain Injury, Vertebral Artery Dissection,

Dec 27, 2022

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This Revised Edition is Presently In Press, as an Update to How Much Things Changed in the Last 10 years. For Those That Do Not Know, I Survived a Traumatic Brain Injury, Vertebral Artery Dissection with Aneurysm, and Severe Dysautonomia or Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). Abandoned by mostly everyone, written off as a histrionic female who was “pretending”, I suffered the abuses of the medical profession and was given up for dead…

… except for Dr. David S. Cannom, who was the first doctor to “believe” in me. Even though he pointed me in the right direction, I eventually felt death was still at my door.

More on that later … listen to what Dr. Cannom has to say not just about me, but about dysautonomia in general.

How bad was it to suffer from severe POTS? It was awful. I woke up and threw up. I could not stand. If I could stand, if was only for mere moments. I was so delicate that I required bedrest 24/7 and was bedridden for a total of twelve years.

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Forward

The disease that we call dysautonomia—seemingly unrecognized fifteen years ago—is still poorly understood in the medical profession.

The causes are uncertain, the overlap with other disease entities is extensive, there is no “gold standard” diagnostic test, and the available medical and surgical therapies lack any guideline certainty. Yet without fail, the affected patients have major and incapacitating symptoms including syncope, racing pulse, postural hypotension, fatigue, nausea, and vomiting. Many end up bedridden, and depression among them seems ubiquitous. Both the patient and the physician are overwhelmed. Many opinions are sought, and more questions are asked than answered. The disease often has a long clinical course with no change and a continued search for a quick cure.

When I first met this patient, Margaret Aranda, MD, it was December 2006. She was lying in a fetal position, vomiting into the office trash can. I wish I had a videotape of what she was like then. She was thinly gaunt with black circles under her eyes. She appeared to be very fragile and ill as if there was something desperately wrong with her health. So, we performed the tilt test on patient Aranda. She promptly lost consciousness, blacking out when the table changed from the supine to the upright position. I was able to make the diagnosis of dysautonomia, dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system. I felt an impending sense of doom as if this patient was literally hanging on to life by a string.

Two years later, Dr. Aranda openly gives thanks to God for surviving one day at a time. She’s survived about twenty hospitalizations, recovered from seemingly insurmountable complications of living with a peripherally inserted central catheter, and kept on fighting to live every day. She has convalesced from being in bed, throwing up every day. She has advanced from a wheelchair to a walker, from a walker to a cane, and from a cane to doing jumping jacks in my office! She exudes a vibrant aura of inspiration and has transferred it to paper for all to see.

Every path is different. Margaret found that spirituality was important in her recovery. And although most days are better thanks to the medicines and fluids, there are bad days also. She has kept the healing process alive and waits like all of us for a better understanding of this incapacitating disease.

—David S. Cannom, MD, FACC, FHRS

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Paths and Lessons

Yes, every path is different but the path that God took me on wasn’t designed to tear me down, but to build me up in Christ. I would love to tell you how quickly it took me to get better, and how much I instantly learned about what I had to do to get better.

I wish I could have put it in a summary book, one that was really easy to read. But I couldn’t do that.

Why not?

It wasn’t JUST about getting better.

Getting better was the easy part.

What was the hardest part?

It was the things that I would have to do after getting better.

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WHAT I REALLY THINK

During those 12 years of disability, I became very good at dying to myself. To do

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