Transcript
Caller (0:05)
How do I navigate a life changing diagnosis when my partner has an invisible disease? And I guess the other part is, how do I grieve? Unknown.
Dr. John DeLoney (0:15)
What's the diagnosis?
Caller (0:16)
Trigeminal neuralgia.
Dr. John DeLoney (0:17)
Oh, man.
Caller (0:19)
So you look it up and it's, you know, number one most painful diagnosis that someone can get.
Dr. John DeLoney (0:29)
What up, what up, what up? Hey, I'm John with the Dr. John DeLoney show coming to you live from Nashville, Tennessee, taking your calls on your mental health, your emotional health, your marriage, whatever you got going on in your life. All of us are trying to figure out what to do in a world that's lost its freaking mind. That's why I'm here. Pull up a seat and we'll figure out what's the next right move for you, your marriage, your kids, whatever you got going on. Let's go out to New York City, New York and talk to Lee. What's up, Lee?
Caller (0:59)
Hey, Dr. John.
Dr. John DeLoney (1:00)
What's up, homie?
Caller (1:02)
Oh, not much, brother. I'm, I'm in it right now.
Dr. John DeLoney (1:06)
Let's hear it, man. What's going on?
Caller (1:08)
Yeah, I guess, you know, listen to you for a long time. Really, really love all the wisdom you give and thank you so much to you guys, my team, but my question, you know, how do I navigate a life changing diagnosis when my partner has an invisible disease? And I guess the other part is how do I grieve the unknown?
Dr. John DeLoney (1:27)
Oh, man. What happened? What's the diagnosis?
Caller (1:29)
Trigeminal neuralgia.
Dr. John DeLoney (1:31)
Oh, man.
Caller (1:33)
So you look it up and it's the suicide disease, you know, number one most painful diagnosis that someone can get. You know, she was diagnosed a few weeks ago. I work in healthcare in New York and kind of seeing the other side of the system and how, you know, for context, for everyone. It's a severe, shocking pain to one side of the face that is debilitating. Puts people on disability and, you know, navigating people thinking it's stress and thinking it's a period and thinking it's everything else except for the diagnosis. And so we have a diagnosis, you know, but the short term, she's going on short term medical leave, so kind of mourning the next month, but not knowing if this is something that's going to respond quickly to therapy or if we're looking at years. And this is somebody incredibly healthy, no medical problems, works two jobs, stepmom to my two beautiful kids, best woman I've ever met in my life. And we're kind of having to. With the hand grenade dropped a little bit.
