according to the Canadian Cancer Society. Read more: Nova Scotia woman recounts long, painful road to an endometriosis diagnosis Landry-Rudolph’s symptoms began after she became pregnant with her first son.
She said she noticed a reddish-purple rash and visited her family doctor, who prescribed her some creams.About a year and a half later, she noticed it had grown in size, had become painful and was leaking fluid,“I was fearful that I had an infection.
So I would visit (the ER), then again I was given antibiotics and no answers,” she recalled.By the time she was pregnant with her second child, she noticed the rash had started to show up on the opposite side of her body on the left hip.“Then I knew in my gut that something is not right,” she said.Even then, she said she was seen by “multiple” physicians and told it was chafing or eczema.
She was on a wait-list for a dermatology specialist for over a year, and when she asked the family doctor about the wait, she was advised to call and check on the wait-list herself.That’s the day she calls a “miracle” because she called and they had a cancellation“Hadn’t I made that call that day myself, I wouldn’t be in treatment right now,” she said.“When I went up to see the specialist, he took one look at me and said, ‘This is not something we see every day.’ So in that moment, I was distraught.