Within the last month, my deepest, afraid-to-say-out-loud fears came true. Temporarily. For the past 10 years, I’ve lived with undifferentiated connective tissue disease, a rare autoimmune disease.
And for almost a year now, my rheumatologist and neurologist had been recommending a muscle biopsy as another way of looking at my leg, inside my leg, to try and determine what was causing the increasing pain and weakness I have been experiencing.
This pain and weakness wasn’t new. The difference now was the intensity and location of my pain — in my left thigh — when generally it’s always been limited to my left calf.
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