A Series of Unfortunate Events In medicine we are taught to think about Occam's Razor, a philosophical problem solving concept that attempts to search for an explanation with the fewest possible elements. “The simplest explanation is usually the best one.” Which is fabulous when it works, and is most often the best approach in science. BUT, sometimes there isn’t a single, tidy answer and that is clearly what has happened in Naomi’s case this last month. It has taken about 10 days to fully piece each bit of the unraveling back together. In mid September she was sick, along with her boyfriend for about 5 days. They had fevers, cough, body aches and fatigue (he told me that it felt like Covid for him, but we aren’t 100% certain about that being the virus then). He already had mono in the early summer, and so he couldn’t have been sick with mono again. Both recovered, and about 8 days later on September 30th she started to feel a bit off balance and woozy. She was developing
