Saturday, April 01, 2006

Dreadful Wedding Planner

This storyis the true chronicle of a young bride who went from paradise to hell in the span of a few days. If you are about to get married, read carefully what you should not do to avoid living the same nightmare. Choose your wedding planner very carefully...

"I thought I was having a heart attack." The young woman was recounting her symptoms to the tall red-haired woman who had known her all her life. "I was so scared, "the patient whispered, her eyes filled with tears. One night, she woke up with an intense pain on the left side of her chest. She called her husband and the pain was so intense they thought of going to the ER right away. But the pain disappeared as mysteriously as it came. Instead, she decided to call her regular doctor the next morning.Dr Jeffrey Engel saw her two days later. The patient was 25, had no medical problems and had recently come back from a honeymoon in the Caribbean. Other than some pinches above her left breast, she was fine: she wasn't tired or in pain, she had good appetite, no swollen lymph nodes, no fever, clear lungs and the heartbeat was OK, although a little fast.Dr Engel knew that healthy young women aren't supposed to have heart attacks. But what did his young patient have? She just had a few very high-energy months with a passionate romance quickly followed by a wonderful wedding and a dream honeymoon. Could it be stress? Or perhaps heartburn which can cause intense chest pain that is often interpreted as a heart attack? He ordered a chest X-ray and EKG and prescribed a heartburn medicine.

Things got really bad by the time she got the result of the X-ray which showed a mass in the left lung. The pain got steadily worse and by the day she went to see her doctor and godmother at the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, she felt like she was wearing an old-fashioned corset, laced up really, really tight. She had excruciating pain in the left part of her chest when she was trying to take a deep breath. The X-ray and the following CT-scan showed a mass on the left side of her chest. Her godmother and the radiologist wondered if this was lung cancer, or metastasis from somewhere else, or an infection, or a virus? They decided they needed a biopsy. However, the regular biopsy wasn't enough to clearly state what the mass was. To really understand what it was, doctors needed to do a surgery, and the godmother of our heroine dreaded cancer. It's only when they analyzed the cells taken from this mass, which really looked like cancer, under the microscope that they understood it wasn't cancer. It was a special type of pneumonia, which came from a potentially deadly allergic reaction, usually to a medication. The godmother and doctor told her beloved patient that she needed to stop any medication she was taking. Besides her birth-control pill, the young bride couldn't remember taking any medication. Then, it came back to her: her wedding planner suggested to see a dermatologist to make sure that she would have a perfect skin on the wedding day. Even though she never had acne, her local dermatologist gave her an anti-acne medication called minocycline, just to be on the safe side. It's considered relatively safe, except for a few reported cases of severe allergic reactions like with this young unfortunate bride.As soon as she stopped the medication, the symptoms improved and finally, the mass disappeared. She celebrated her first anniversary last summer. "I feel fine - but a little silly," she said. "and pretty upset, I'd never had taken this medicine if I'd known about this. Even if it's a one-in-a-million chance - when you're the one, it's bad."

If you don't want to be that one (but who wants to risk his/her life to prevent the presence of small pimples on the D day?) and you still want to be more beautiful than ever for your wedding, Nature can help you! Start using clay masks weekly and Wild Musk Rose oil daily and 6 months before the wedding day. Clay will purify and refine your skin naturally. Wild Musk Rose oil will regenerate your skin, lighting radiance and beauty on your face. You won't have to fear any deadly allergic reaction to some doubtful medication, and your skin will look better than ever.

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