A Woman Was Misdiagnosed With 2 Serious, Life-Threatening Diseases Before Doctors Realized She Had An Inflammatory Skin Condition

As featured in Insider:

When she was in 6th grade, Jasmine Espy woke up one day with a golf ball-sized cyst under her right armpit.

"I sat on the edge of my bed kind of in disbelief," Espy, 29, told Insider. She went to the bathroom and lifted her arm. "It was extremely painful," she said. "It was tender to the touch and just very hard. It felt like there was a mass underneath my skin."

Her mother thought it was a boil and booked an appointment with Espy's pediatrician, who gave her instructions to use a hot compress until the nodule came to a head and burst.