5 /5 Caroline: As a former Geneseo student, I know how dichotomous the perception of Noyes is within the college community. And I also know how concerned parents may peruse these reviews when their kid is sick away from home, so I wanted to share my story. Personally, after being blatantly misdiagnosed by Geneseo’s health services several times as a freshman from then on out, if I had the option, I always choose to go to Noyes when I was sick. Not only did they help me through several medical ailments throughout my time in Geneseo, most notably, they were the first to indicate to me that I may have Crohn’s Disease. A disease I was, in fact, later diagnosed with.
I went in complaining of stomach pains thinking I was dehydrated or something following a hot September day in the sun. But after more questions the Dr or RN (I really wish I remembered who it was that looked out for me that day so I could thank them but I sadly do not) began to piece things together I didn’t at all think were related. (swollen ankles? I was a college student with cheap shoes and a long walk to class - who knew that would be significant to my stomach pain?)
From there they ran a blood test to check for inflammation indicators (which I had), which then lead to me to a referral for a gastroenterologist, again, at Noyes.
While I no longer live in Geneseo or receive treatment at Noyes, the snowballed effects of what happened that day changed my life, un-hyperbolically, forever. I had been miserably living in pain for months without a thought crossing my mind that all I was experiencing was linked to a disease. And who knows how many more months I would have suffered without a clue what the cause was, nor the damage I would have done to my body without intervention.
I am incredibly grateful, and forever will be, for the services Noyes provided to me on that day.
