Boo thanksgiving....

[_carmi]

whoa.. sorry to hear that. fucking doctors. hopefully 2008 will be better. stay strong. i'm sending lots of positive vibes your way.

AM good luck to your grandpa too.

Carmi xx

ps this reminds me i have to go see my grandma at her specialized old folks house.. i haven't seen her in 2 weeks and the news is she's doing really badly.

 

[Bobby Sands]

My condolences Trish.

R.I.P

 

[Get In The Van I Have Candy]

Sorry to hear that Trish. R.I.P.

 

[Synful*Luv]

Yup, thanks

 

[Devious]

i doubt this will make you feel any better Trish, but i share your pain and frustration with doctors. when my Mom first had a heart attack in 2005, the doctors told her she had 3 clogged arteries in her heart, but since only one artery was critically clogged (85% clogged, the other 2 were 60% and about 45% clogged) they only put a stent in one artery and sent her home with 2 other nearly clogged arteries. they basically told her, "come back when you have another heart attack, and then we'll fix you." well unfortunately she did have another one, and this one killed her. i hate doctors :fury:

 

[Synful*Luv]

i doubt this will make you feel any better Trish, but i share your pain and frustration with doctors. when my Mom first had a heart attack in 2005, the doctors told her she had 3 clogged arteries in her heart, but since only one artery was critically clogged (85% clogged, the other 2 were 60% and about 45% clogged) they only put a stent in one artery and sent her home with 2 other nearly clogged arteries. they basically told her, "come back when you have another heart attack, and then we'll fix you." well unfortunately she did have another one, and this one killed her. i hate doctors :fury:

Oh I know It's like who are you to decide what's enough or not. Dammit do all you can until nothing else can be done! That should be WHY they're in the profession they are in to save lives! Don't half-ass it, you know? It's not a part time customer service job. :fury: Ugh. There should be some sort of law against that.

 

[Devious]

Oh I know It's like who are you to decide what's enough or not. Dammit do all you can until nothing else can be done! That should be WHY they're in the profession they are in to save lives! Don't half-ass it, you know? It's not a part time customer service job. :fury: Ugh. There should be some sort of law against that.

well it seems to me that the situation with your Gram was more about incompetence (how can one doctor say the cancer is gone, and then another one sees that it's ravishing her whole body, did that first guy get his medical license from a cereal box?) but the problem with my mom was more the fault of the Canadian health system. the policy is that if something isn't life-threatening at that moment, they can't do anything about it because the government won't pay for anthing until you absolutely need it. of course that doesn' take into account that by the time the situation does becomes critical it could already be too late to do anything about it, as it was in her situation.

 

[Synful*Luv]

well it seems to me that the situation with your Gram was more about incompetence (how can one doctor say the cancer is gone, and then another one sees that it's ravishing her whole body, did that first guy get his medical license from a cereal box?) but the problem with my mom was more the fault of the Canadian health system. the policy is that if something isn't life-threatening at that moment, they can't do anything about it because the government won't pay for anthing until you absolutely need it. of course that doesn' take into account that by the time the situation does becomes critical it could already be too late to do anything about it, as it was in her situation.

Awww, that really does suck. Well our medical system had a part to play in on this also. She was getting disability from her work due to a work related injury where she wasn't able to work anymore. So they canceled her blue cross blue shield and gave her a shitty PPO. None of the hospitals in her insurance were really all that great. Incompetent hospitals = incompetent doctors. I mean, I called every freakin cancer association out there and none of them took her insurance so they said they couldn't help. I had to pay cash, about $6800 altogether to have her seen at this place she was at when she passed.