When I first met the patient in the emergency room at the hospital where I was working at the time, I noticed her bluish-white hands. Some of the fingertips were already blackened – the hands obviously no longer had proper blood circulation. The woman in her late fifties seemed very sick. She couldn’t walk, she said, because she could no longer feel her legs. She has also lost five kilos in the last six months. At another clinic they couldn’t find out what was wrong with her.
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