Posted on 09/01/2013 7:00:40 PM PDT by Black Agnes
Which makes me wonder another thing. Lab results. How will you ever know if that ‘normal’ result was really normal. And not suspicious or cancerous?
With ACORN and with access to our records.
That early suspicious pap may be labeled ‘normal’ by someone with access to your voting or political contribution record. When in reality you’ve got early stage cervical cancer. That now won’t get caught until way later in the game when it’s symptomatic.
I don’t know. I just know he’s got supplemental. I’ll have to ask my mom.
Thank you! We’re as optimistic as we can be right now. Considering.
Prayers that this nightmare doesn’t get worse for you and that your Dad gets the treatment that he needs and deserves in a FREE country!
Thank you, from both of us. I need a valium.
That’s good to know. I’ll make sure to tell my mom before they do surgery.
God bless you for that example of your dad. I feel much better having read that.
My mom is chomping at the bit already. I’ll make sure she knows that’s illegal.
It seems to be a new thing too, this ‘we can’t do that’ stuff.
I remember when my pedi retired his nurse (who was also his wife) called my mom and asked if she wanted to come by and get my and my brother’s records. Mom has them in manilla envelopes just under our baby books.
Thank you very much. He is a veteran also. He babysat the DMZ in Korea in the late 50’s. All of his brothers are veterans too. Including one who was career navy.
His kind don’t deserve this. Death from heart failure sucks. Especially for someone who, until last year, was still as active as my dad.
I just said a prayer for your father and you.
Thank you. We appreciate it.
Get all the info. and opinions you can.
DNR, is not bad in itself from what I’ve heard, but it’s the misuse of it, that’s the problem it appears, as they use it as an excuse to give patients less treatment.
May God bless you all!
He’s got a surgeon, they’re planning on sometime next week for surgery (week of the 9th). He got referred to a surgeon the very next day.
None of this ‘watch and wait’ he’d gotten from the first practice. That’s what they do on the NHS in the UK. And by the time they ‘can’ do surgery the victim is either dead, or too old for it.
I will pray for your daddy. God is in control, all is well.
As for getting his medical records, no lawyer is needed. A simple written request, cc’ing the state medical board will get the records in record time. It’s amazing how effective this is.
LOL. That’s a GREAT idea!
I do know he doesn’t want to be on life support. I would hate for him to be denied any sort of ‘necessary’ treatment though.
“..I would hate for him to be denied any sort of necessary treatment though.”
Exactly.
btw, my Catholic religion teaches that food and water are ordinary means, but of course there are exceptions, if the patient is too sick to eat. In my brother-in-law’s case, they couldn’t give him hydration because he was building up too much fluid in his body.
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