Sometimes healing isn’t loud — it’s one quiet change that means everything. When Dr. Beglin told me he was cutting my BUMEX to just 0.25 mg every other day , I sat there shocked. I haven’t been without a diuretic since 1987 , when I was diagnosed with idiopathic fibrosing mediastinitis — a rare disease of unknown causes, that creates scar tissue to grow inside the chest, squeezing the lungs and blood vessels and making it harder for my heart to work. Back then, medicine was
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