Retrospective of patient testimonials Why Doctor 2024.
- These stories are the ones that most impacted the readers of Why Doctor in 2024.
- All our testimonials can be found in the “Patient Testimonial” section, which already contains more than a hundred since its creation in 2021.
- If you too would like to share your experience with us, you can send an email to redaction@pourquoi-docteur.fr with the subject “Patient testimony”.
Sometimes it’s you who come to pick us up, sometimes it’s us who go to meet you. Collecting a patient’s testimony is always a special moment for our team of journalists, and we are delighted to continue this column next year. But before turning a new page, we invite you to reread, or perhaps discover for the first time, the testimonials that most impacted the readers of Why Doctor in 2024.
Loïc Résibois, suffering from Charcot disease
“The first symptoms date back to the end of 2019, but I did not receive the diagnosis of Charcot disease until September 2022. That day, with the neurologist, I learned that my life expectancy would increase from 40 years at 3 or 4 years old.”
Loïc ultimately did not have the chance to live three more years since ALS took him away last September. Failing to be able to fight against this inevitability, he fought to the end for the implementation of active assistance in dying. We gave him the floor again on this subject two months before his death: “I would have liked to see the realization of this law during my lifetime, but I admit that I no longer really believe in it… At least I would have put my part in the matter. “building”, he told us then. Today, his family has taken up the torch and regularly updates his Instagram account to continue to campaign.
Charcot disease: “I learned that my life expectancy would go from 40 years to 3 or 4 years”
“With the dissolution of the National Assembly, he condemns thousands of sick people to unnecessary agony”
Affected by a brain tumor at 45, Olivier recounts his awake surgery
“It’s a bit of a special moment because when you wake up, your head is on one side and you’re aware that you can’t go back. We have this image of the skull which is open.” A spectacular operation which lasted more than nine hours, and which did not go as planned for Olivier.
Brain cancer: “I felt very tired, followed by severe migraines”
Sophie suffers from Cowden’s disease and Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
“Including both breasts, I had over 70 tumors. So, in 2015, I resigned myself to having a mastectomy and a subtotal hysterectomy, and thus giving up my breasts and a possible other motherhood.“Wandering diagnosis, surgical operations, unexplained disorders… Sophie tells us about her medical journey strewn with pitfalls.
Cowden’s disease: “Including both breasts, I had more than 70 tumors”
Jean-Christophe, diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at 38 years old
“It’s an autoimmune disease that makes you tired. We get exhausted faster. And we also heal less quickly. When I have nasopharyngitis, it takes me three weeks to recover. When I’m injured, it takes me three weeks to heal. We often say that we can live with diabetes… It’s true, but it remains difficult. All organs can be affected: it is necessary to go to the cardiologist once a year, to the ophthalmologist. It’s necessary monitor the feet, the kidneys… We spend a lot of time at the doctor.”
“We can live with diabetes, it’s true, but it remains difficult”
Antoine, sinus cancer difficult to diagnose
“Following breathing difficulties, I first had two operations for a polyp in 2011 and 2018. I was then identified with a benign tumor, which I also had removed in September 2019. But despite all this care and follow-up at the hospital, I felt that things were really not going well. I had severe pain in my forehead, my nose had tripled in size and I had a big red mark between my eyes. I was then told it might be a fracture or crack, but I still decided to do an MRI on my own. This is where my sinus cancer was identified by the surgeon.”
Sinus cancer: “I had a whole period where I wanted to live buried in a cellar”
All our testimonials can be found in the Testimonials section. And if you too would like to share your experience with us, you can send an email to redaction@pourquoi-docteur.fr with the subject “Patient testimony”.