celebrity on Dr Drew

[sosudden]

Don't have time at moment to google...

Jennifer Espisito was on Dr Drew.

Talked about being misdiagnosed for years...

 

PS: Dr Drew just rubs me wrong...anyone else?? I think he would blame it all on conversion disorder:(

Will look into more when off work...

BTW -i my dd is doing, dare I say, great! Want to post her story soon!

There is hope!!!(

[kos_mom]

So, I hadn't heard of either of these people before but I looked at the clip. Jennifer is (was?) an actress on a show called Blue Bloods. She had been advised by her doctor to cut back on her 80- 90 hour a week schedule the week before she collapsed on the set. It looked like she's since been asked to leave the show, but that was not clear--there was some intimation she'd return.

 

She says she's been suffering from celiac many years undx'ed and that has caused all kinds of food allergies. Also said she'd had period of extreme anxiety and hair falling out. I felt sorry for her. Dr. Drew (whom I've never heard of before) bore right into her when she said she'd been diagnosed after running a lot of blood tests. He leaned in on her and said "What tests?" She hesitated and he said, "You can tell me. I am a doctor after all." (Quotes may not be exact.) She could only come up with IGG. Clearly he thought she had been to a suspect doctor who was giving her a wacky dx. He asked what kind of specialist she'd gone to and she said just an ordinary doctor.

 

After he had established to his satisfaction that the whole thing was suspect, he loosened up on the inquisatorial tone and drew the lesson that one's health suffers when one gets rundown. So he ended up a little more sympathetically. If you google you can see tweets from Jennifer indicating she was very unhappy about the show. Given the business she is in, however, she should have had a publicist who better prepared her for this interview. She did not come off as a knowledgeable spokesperson for celiac and must have been very naive to walk onto Dr. Drew's set expecting some kind of warm and fuzzy reception.