Posted on 11/12/2008 6:00:02 PM PST by lowbridge
When I was 16, I was sick. I hadn’t been able to get out of bed for nearly 6 weeks. I was pale, having night sweats, disoriented, trouble sleeping, a lot of pain, and I couldn’t move most of the time.
My parents took me to a minor emergency clinic and the doctor was from Pakistan.
He said that I had a hernia.
Told me to drop my pants and he’d check to make sure.
Put his hand on my shoulder and said “Nice lump you have there” and kept going with the hernia check. Said I had one, and it was clearly indicated.
Turns out the “hernia” was actually one of 4 tumors in my stomach and the “lump” was actually 22 tumors in my shoulder.
Had the idiot done just a basic chest x-ray, he’d have found the problems, and I’d have got to the hospital at least 3 weeks earlier.
As was, the docs told me that if I’d started chemo a week later, they’d have sent me home with pain meds and the number for the local Hospice chapter.
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