The young woman who sat down next to me chatted away cheerfully with her nurses. The majority of people around me were usually being treated for various cancers and tended to be quiet and subdued.

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My rheumatologist looked at me with a glazed expression, obviously puzzled by my ongoing episodes of my hip joints refusing to move against gravity. My fluctuating weakness pre-immunoglobulins made little sense to him.

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