Lachlan rested his hand on Ajay's shoulder with a gentle squeeze. "I dinnae want you to think I have no understanding of your eating disorder, buddy. No, I'm nay a specialist in that field and I havenae had any personal experience with the condition. But I am a doctor in our Diagnostic Medicine team here, so it's my job to have understanding of many different conditions and fields. I know that this is a lot for you to take in, and that it's going to be a struggle for you to understand something beyond the control the bulimia has over you needs to take precedent. We'll work very closely with you, and with Gabe, to try to construct the best treatment plan you can cope with. I also understand that the pain and discomfort you feel qualifies to you in your mind that you have control over the eating disorder, but that's not the case, Ajay. It's making you seriously sick and internal bleeding is a serious thing. We caught it early, and what we're going to do it give you some intensive cortisone therapy to heal up the inflammation in the first instance."
Once Ajay gave his authorisation for Billy to be involved, Lachlan handed him some patient leaflets and information sheets on Crohn's Disease. "I also want to commence you on a couple of other medications used to control the flare ups. They will still happen, there's no way to truly avoid them, but we can keep is as controlled as we can and treat the flare ups when they happen. It's important to recognise the signs of the flares so you know when to get further treatment, and that's where the difficulty will be for you because the discomfort has become your norm via the bulimia. You need to start being able to take a normal balanced diet with lots of fluids, fibre and iron. The thought of that scares the living shit out of you, I know, buddy, but this is serious, okay? Either way, if we dinnae address this here and now either the bulimia or this will eventually catch up to you and all your systems will begin to shut down on you. But you have Billy here to help you and take care of you now, and my colleagues here are some of the best in the country. You dinnae have to suffer anymore. We're going to get you well, but you have to work with us."
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Once Ajay gave his authorisation for Billy to be involved, Lachlan handed him some patient leaflets and information sheets on Crohn's Disease. "I also want to commence you on a couple of other medications used to control the flare ups. They will still happen, there's no way to truly avoid them, but we can keep is as controlled as we can and treat the flare ups when they happen. It's important to recognise the signs of the flares so you know when to get further treatment, and that's where the difficulty will be for you because the discomfort has become your norm via the bulimia. You need to start being able to take a normal balanced diet with lots of fluids, fibre and iron. The thought of that scares the living shit out of you, I know, buddy, but this is serious, okay? Either way, if we dinnae address this here and now either the bulimia or this will eventually catch up to you and all your systems will begin to shut down on you. But you have Billy here to help you and take care of you now, and my colleagues here are some of the best in the country. You dinnae have to suffer anymore. We're going to get you well, but you have to work with us."