Click here to read a a GREAT message from GREAT Meniere’s Disease patient Annie Coleman at her website anniecoleman.com.
Here are just some of the many important things to be found in her message, things that make her a GREAT patient:
- She became informed!
- She changed doctors when it made sense.
- She went to a neurotologist (specialty most specific to Meniere’s Disease).
- She approached treatment logically, starting with the least invasive.
- She is aware that improvement following treatment may mean that the treatment is responsible, but considers the possibility of coincidental temporary remission.
- She knows that when one treatment doesn’t improve symptoms, the next treatment may, and that one never knows which treatment may be the charm until one tries it.
- She has determination — she continues to explore ways to improve her symptoms. She reacts to disappointment not with despair but with progression in treatment options.
- She continues with her life, yet adapting to the demands of her symptoms. She did the things that she could and adapted to the things that she couldn’t do.
- She is a realist and she is an optimist, proving that these two views can coexist.
We are grateful to Annie for posting this GREAT message, and we wish her well.