Snidely/Andy "Whipplelash" Stephenson absconds with the DoUgh.
Posted on 05/17/2005 12:04:34 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Are you pressing "Shift" and "Prt Scr" to capture it?
Does anyone remember when GreatAunt said Andy was approved for Medicaid?
patcox2 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-17-05 04:14 PM
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18. Well, there are published studies on whipple mortality based on medicare.
Medicare information was the basis for some whipple mortality studies I looked up, I assume that means whipple procedures are paid by medicare. I also found a Seattle hospital that does over 60 whipples a year and has a 0% operative mortality rate, imagine that.
seventythree Donating member (896 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-17-05 04:42 PM
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37. You don't say!!!!
and according to GreatAunt, Andy was approved for Medicaid in Washington, with 3 months retroactivity to cover those initial bills for which they were fundraising.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3674268#3674425
No, I tried the "file," "save as" thingamajig, and the computer wouldn't save.
I'll figure it out, for future reference.
Too much going on right now, to "learn."
<<not the brightest bulb in the room.
Snidely/Andy "Whipplelash" Stephenson absconds with the DoUgh.
Don't sell yourself so short! It was just last week that YOU walked me through getting that one screen cap and getting it hosted. :^)
Probably worried about how I was going to stay out of jail.
OUCH!
I just want to know. Which one of you is Buckhead?
WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Tue May-17-05 03:29 PM
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'Need an explanation' Thread II
This is thread one, which is getting pretty huge:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
First of all, I'm not going to apologize for asking these questions. Something is not right about all this. Let's be clear:
The very-publicly-proclaimed diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, which I was personally told of, was changed to a thread-buried diagnosis of pancreatitis. The first is deadly dangerous, the second is very much not.
An enormous amount of money was raised in rapid fashion based on the aforementioned first diagnosis. For those who say 'Big deal' about the money raised, understand that it isn't about the money itself, nor is it about 'my ego.'
The organizations I work for, plus a whole bunch of organizations I have never heard of, took 'pancreatic cancer' and raised it to the rooftops. I am getting frightened PMs and emails from representatives of these organizations.
It isn't about the money. It is about the ability of these organizations to fundraise for important causes we all believe in. If this situation is not on the level, the ability for those organizations to do their good work is now imperiled. That hurts each and every one of us.
I believe Andy is sick, and I believe he needs treatment. I believe the compassion showed by DUers and others in rallying to his aid was and remains one of the most remarkable things I have ever seen.
But, based on the aforementioned concerns, I need to know why we were allowed to yell 'pancreatic cancer' and 'Whipple' and 'impending death' from the rooftops for weeks. I need to know why $50,000 was raised for a procedure at Johns Hopkins, when it appears now the diagnosed ailment could have been treated on the cheap in Seattle.
I need to know why I've been allowed to believe Andy was dying, why I was not told that this wasn't the case. Hell, a part of me is massively relieved...but the rest of me is badly hurt and deeply confused. I have called Andy my friend. Friends usually tell friends when they are no longer dying. I never heard that, and had to read it buried in a thread. If you need a personal impetus for my posts, you can have that.
This could all be a vast miscommunication. If so, if all this is on the up-and-up and it is just a matter of a bunch of wires getting crossed, then I will take whatever rap is coming for stirring up a hornet's nest. But I am not going to apologize. Anyone who thinks this is just about me does not appreciate the scope of the issue here. Hundreds of people, a bunch of important organizations and dozens of important causes are on the hook with this.
To answer the question of why I didn't talk to Andy, all I can say is this. I did talk to Andy. Dozens of times. It was from him first that I got the pancreatic cancer/Whipple/Johns Hopkins thing. It was from him first that I got the death-is-impending messages. Dozens of times. It was talking to Andy that started this, and right now, I am not at all comfortable going to Andy for confirmation of anything.
The pancreatic cancer diagnosis, the death-is-impending statements, the need to have all that money and the need for Johns Hopkins were all very publicly proclaimed. The hysteria to get it done was propelled in no small part by threads and posts from Andy himself. Therefore, a demand for an accounting of the vast discrepancies must also be public.
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Tue May-17-05 03:34 PM
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4. I just want to know the absolute verfiable truth either way
Why that makes me a trolling freeper scumbag whose hands may someday wear Andy's blood is beyond me, but I hope you have better luck dealing with the lynchmob that's headed your way.
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EarlG ADMIN (1000+ posts) Tue May-17-05 03:39 PM
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12. Locking
Please see...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
belladonna (1000+ posts) Tue May-17-05 03:49 PM
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Lock this if you must, but I'm posting it anyway
It seems there will be no discussion allowed anymore on the Andy situation. Until there is, I think I'm gonna step away from DU and forget about making any donations to DU in the current fund drive. Congrats to all who alerted on Will and got this shut down. Mighty patriotic of you all to support free speech. I guess we have more than one version of kool aid making the rounds out there and we at DU aren't immune to it.
Well, the scandal is helping their hits
I still find it a strange coincidence, that whenever ANY post about Undie appears on DU, within mere minutes, there is a response by one or more of the faghags. They aren't actively posting anywhere else in DUmmieVille, but swoop out of the ether when an "Undie" post appears. Mighty peculiar if you ask me.
Bustin' Rocks
in the Hot Sun!
I Fought the Law
and the Law Won!
I fought the Law
and the Law Won!
I Wanted Money
Cause I Had None!
I Fought the Law
And the Law Won!
I Fought the Law
and the Law Won!
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which forum thread is that on???
I think it speaks volumes as to just how much of a panic mode the DUmp is in when they are killing threads from the almight WillPitt.
He is an icon at the DUmp.
They were on a thread that WillPitt started. Let me see if I can find it...assuming it hasn't been flushed.
Guess they learned how to Whipple it good.....
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