Healthy woman goes to the hospital in excruciating pain. You make the diagnosis.
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Diana Wyman's life is all about routine -- and it's a routine she says she loves.
Wyman lives deep in the woods of New Hampshire, where she spends her days caring for her husband of 37 years and their son. She also raises llamas -- five of them!
"I take care of them all by myself, morning and night," she says.
Wyman says feeding, cleaning and maintaining the llamas' pastures and taking them for walks is a full-time job. So when she developed an ear infection and started feeling weak, she wasn't about to let that get in the way of what she had to do. Her doctor put her on antibiotics for her infection and sent her home. Wyman, who's suffered from severe food allergies for years, had a bad reaction to the antibiotics. Within several weeks she'd lost 10 pounds.
"By then she was getting so tired," Diana's husband Curtis recalls. "She was sleeping 18 hours a day."
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"I was exhausted," Wyman remembers. She also says she'd started to develop a strange rash.
"It was a discoloration, but you couldn't feel anything," Curtis Wyman says.
Eventually the rash got worse, spreading from Diana's knees down her legs -- and it started to burn. Around this same time, Curtis remembers his wife making comments that her gums would bleed whenever she brushed her teeth.
Wyman was determined not to let her deteriorating health slow her down. "I kept pushing and pushing myself," she says.
Life continued as normal for her until she woke up one morning and says she was overcome with excruciating pain.
"I tried to walk to the bathroom and I couldn't make it," she says. "I took two steps and just couldn't take anymore. It just hurt too bad."
Wyman's physician told her to go straight to the ER. She couldn't walk -- she was in so much pain her husband had to carry her inside the hospital.
"Her legs from the knees down were just completely black and blue," Curtis says.
