"I've got over 40 diagnoses in my charts at this point," she said.The Stanford medical library has been a refuge for Von Raesfeld."I would spend hours as a kid just pouring over medical books, just trying to find information on me," she recalled.For a while, doctors treating Von Raesfeld's symptoms with drugs only made things worse, especially with three medications she took to treat lupus in her late 20s that she says resulted in three joint replacements, toxic encephalopathy and night-vision loss.
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