ah, systemic sclerosis, that's the one where your skin tightens like old leather in the sun. limited stays mostly on the hands and face, but diffuse... that one goes wild, can get your lungs and guts all kazari. the nailfold test, they look at your tiny finger blood vessels with a special glass—if they're all sook and messed up, it’s a bad sign.
my cousin up in assagao had the limited kind, and for two years the city doctors just said it was arthritis. finally got that capillaroscopy and it showed those giant, looped vessels. by then, her fingers were already curled. so much for ‘limited’ meaning mild, no?
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