MTV VJ Karen Duffy: I went ‘out with a bang’ before chronic pain diagnoses
nypost.comliving without chronic pain: when she attended the 1995 Emmys with her pal George Clooney. “That was the last day that I lived without chronic pain,” she told People. “It was the next day that I became symptomatic with sarcoidosis.
That photo marks the end of my healthy life with one of the most charming and hilarious gentlemen. Talk about going out with a bang!” The morning after the A-list event, Duffy woke up with head and neck pain that she described as “an electric eel swimming up my spinal column.” Doctors soon discovered an inoperable “mostaccioli-size” lesion putting pressure on her brain stem and spinal cord that had already damaged her nerves and was causing the intense pain.
After nine months of doctors visits and physical agony, Duffy was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, which affects some 200,000 people in the US. “It’s constant.
It’s like having somebody shouting in your ear,” she described to ABC News — something she also talks about in her new book, “Wise Up: Irreverent Enlightenment From a Mother Who’s Been Through It,” a collection of letters written to her son.
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