Mystery Diagnosis - Michael Iniguez

My good friends, Stuart and Sherrill Iniguez and their son Michael were featured on Mystery Diagnosis last night on the Oprah Winfrey Network. We first met when we both enrolled our kids in preschool, they are 20 now so we've known them for a long time. At one point we both lived in Petaluma and frequently socialized together. I miss them very much living in Texas now.

I remember emailing back and forth while her son was recuperating and her telling me the events of her son's illness and how he almost died. But to see their story on tv was so surreal and it just hit home so much more. I was crying thru the segment and wished I was home in Petaluma to have been able to offer my love and support.

I want to take this opportunity to educate people on Lemierre's Syndrome. This is the disease that Michael had and took a specialist to diagnosis it. And thank God he did, otherwise he would have died in the next several days.

It's a blood clot in the neck caused by bacteria and it slowly loosens up and runs through your entire bloodstream. First symptom is a sore throat, followed by fever, ammonia and then organ failure and you become septic. It's very rare and why several doctors could not diagnosis him.












Here is the link to the show: http://www.oprah.com/own-mystery-diagnosis/mystery-diagnosis.html

I pray that you never have to experience this for yourself.