If 2003 wasn't hard enough, it took January almost an entire year to finish,

we have crazy balloons 100,000 miles up in the air that are basically doing surveillance,

and the worst thing of all is that Saline Dion has cancelled her

2023 tour and our hearts go out to her. Now the reason for the actual

cancellation is something known as stiff person syndrome.

Now it used to be called stiff man syndrome but it can happen to both men and women

and so the term stiff person syndrome is more appropriate.

Now up until recently no one had really heard of stiff person Person Syndrome. In fact when you think about

Stiff Person Syndrome the most common thing that people think about are the stone

men from a book of ice and fire that are inflicted by gray scale in a game of Thrones and we know that are inflicted by Grey scale in a Game of Thrones and we know that they

all congregate in Valantis and they live near the bridge of dreams and the sorrows

and they're covered in this grey scale and it makes your skin look like they're covered in stone.

And so they're called stone men.

This is kind of like leprosy and a lepro colony in the terms of the book,

but stiff person syndrome has nothing to do with game of of Thrones, has nothing to do with leprosy,

and has nothing to do with that specific type of stigma.

And so with Selene Dion, who has this affliction who we hope makes a dramatic recovery and does well, I figured this would be a good time to go over this topic here in this podcast to kind of get any kind of the misconceptions about the disorder moved away and more importantly all of you out there who are

following along with these podcasts in case you come across this one or two

every million person disease might be able to recognize it you'll know how to

diagnose it and you'll know how to diagnose it,

and you'll know how to manage it.

So I'm Dr. Nakeetson-Paul, your friendly neighborhood internist and

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