kendra jackson assumed she was dealing with allergies or a lingering cold when she went to see yet another doctor for her perpetually running nose. the frustrated nebraska native needed another misdiagnosis like she needed a hole in the head.
“(it was) like a waterfall, continuously, and then it would run to the back of my throat,” she
told ketv in 2018
. “everywhere i went i always had a box of puffs, always stuffed in my pocket.”
jackson’s symptoms, which included constant migraines, began to appear a couple of years after she was rear-ended by another driver while sitting in her parked van in 2013. the impact sent her face into the dashboard and broke her shoulder in two places — injuries that would require multiple surgeries and a year’s worth of physical therapy to heal.
with doctors repeatedly pointing to an allergic reaction as the cause of her discomfort, jackson began to sink into depression, fearing she would never feel normal again. as she burned through box after box of tissues and routinely awoke in the morning drenched from the fluid seeping from her septum, the will to live was literally leaving her body. “i couldn’t sleep, i was like a zombie,” she said.
desperate for relief, jackson booked an appointment with an ear, nose and throat specialist at
nebraska medicine
and laid down the law upon arrival. “i said, ‘i am not leaving this office until you tell me what is wrong with me.’ i was adamant,” she said.
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