If you read nothing else in this story, at least take note of this:

Dina suffered from ME/CFS (colloquially known as chronic fatigue syndrome, or CFS)—a debilitating chronic illness—for eight years before she received an official diagnosis. Eight years. She went to several doctors who attributed her conditions and suffering to anxiety and burnout from work. The CDC estimates that 90 percent of people with ME/CFS have not been diagnosed, and most medical schools in the United States do not have ME/CFS as part of their physician training.

Dina was eventually tipped off from an article in the news she read, which eventually led her to one of the handful of specialists in the U.S. on ME/CFS.

That is why I am telling her story.