just back from tests. checked thyroid and it was down a lot. uped the dose. feel like a new guy. got there thursday 7 am. blood drawn. 730 ekg. 8 chest x ray. 830 a mri on my neck. ( jammed it getting in the truk.) thought it was cracked?? 9 to heart doctor. had me go to urologist for lump i was freakin about. said old men just get them. those are free. hmmmmmmm my girlriend found it. told her it was hers to play with. eee eee eeeeeee heart doctor said I have blood pressure med working against my thryoid ? sp. changed those. back for a mri on my ear. radiation killed the nerve. mri says. too bad. oh well. still have one. to the ultra sound. checked lump on my foot. looks like a soft boiled egg under the side of my foot. it slides around like one. not hooked to nothing. freaky. boot dosnt like it. said. that is free. the lump that is. dont worry. b e happy. oh dammit.
backfor consult at 4. was outa there in one day. isnt that a hoot. thats how it works in a real hospital. 231-846-0346 in case you would like to know more. i have taken several people out there. got many more hooked up. just helped a lady get out there that had infection in a serious wound in her leg. seems the hospital here sewed her up with out dated sutures or thread that promotes infection. body cant digest it. out dated. was killin her. she went there. they power washed the dead stuff out. removed the stitches. took the skin off the top of her head.. get this. just the top layers. shaved it. used the skin. the hair grew bak through where they skinned it. the new skin has her leg lookin like new. she is alive all in about 3 weeks. she was planning her funeral before she got there. NO joke. get along little doggie. ya hang around here pilgrim the coyoties will eat ya.
because I had good insurance the medical professionals around here were running me through this gauntlet of tests. I firmly believe they have perfected a system of handing off the patient like a pawn in a game. I would show up at the referred doctor and that guy was already head set on what was wrong. never ever would look or listen to me. I felt like they were all saying either the exact same thing or were so vague or didn’t say anything. they were after the money. i feel like they have a racket that goes like this
if they all stick together and keep saying the wrong thing. if the patient ever tries to sue them that they can all say that they all thought the same thing. there for its just a mistake. the patient cant do anything.
well after 2 years of coughing. not being able to swallow. night sweats. ( bad ) I mean gallons of water every night. slept on towels. that is how bad it was getting. the last straw hit the camels back. this dr in reed city was going to have my go to get my colon checked. I looked at him and said. ” I cant swallow. am choking. pooping is absolutely no problem” sounds funny now but I was totally pissed off. came home. packedthe car. called them at the hospital and told them to have my records ready at the counter and told them I was going to Mayo clinic.
they tried to give me a hard time. I got really pissed off and said a bunch of stuff. when I got there it was on the counter. went to rochester mn. it took me 3 days of waiting in the waiting room of the best throat surgeon in the world. dr kasperbauer. when I got in. he looked at my throat and said. ” you got here just in the nick of time. you have a tumor on your tonsil.”
it took 4 min and I had a diagnosis. had they checked here when this all started it would have been a simple tonsiectomy. now it was stage four. you are reading the words of a 64 year old cancer survivor . it was 2000 when I was diagnosed. radiation and radical neck dissection. 5 serious years of healing.
I will inject this little piece of information ” I had a english Shepard dog. he was always trying to lick my neck every time he had a chance. exactly where the tumor was located later I found out. after the surgery and radiation he never did that again. ” my dog knew more than these doctors and I use the term loosely.
since then I have taken several people and sent a LOT more out there. cindy peterson from ashton called and asked what she could do to get ready for radiation. they told her that she had stage 4 skin cancer. I asked her if she would like a second opinion. she said she had 4 so far. all the same diagnosis. reed city. cadillac. traverse city and the illustrious annarbor teaching hospital. this is total facts gang. i asked her if she would go to mayo. it was then she said. the doctors said they couldn’t get me a appointment for 3 months and she would be dead by then
It was friday morning. I called my doctor and told him the situation. he said have her here Monday morning. she went with her sister. called me Monday about noon. didnt have cancer of any kind.. ( NO CANCER OF ANY KIND) pretty cool huh.I asked her later what the people said after she went back and told them and tried to find out the flaw in the medical system that mis informed her. they said. now get this ” it was a bad testing facility that gave us a false positive” how many women and men were miraculously cured of cancer they didn’t even have.
my daughters mother discovereda lump. a rather large one and went to a doctor. they set her up for surgery, radiation and chemo therapy. hi ho to Mayo we go. oh yeah. its a benign tumor. no big deal. simple removal. she came back here and had the surgery done. NO radiation and NO chemo. pay attention to this little detail.. tumors and not all bad. just a growth. get a second opinion for damn shure
wonder why insurance costs are so high. they all are milking it. if you have good insurance it almost means you are going to get worse care. you will be run through things no human should ever be treated like.
I have quite a list of people that I have tried to help and the most remarkable thing they all have in common is 2 things. wrong diagnosis or wrong treatment. cindys sister went out and was taking 18 different kinds of pills. the pills were killing her. Mayo weaned her to about 7 she actually needed.
Paul anderson was sent home to die from a brain tumor. kim and I took him out and discovered he had Lyme disease. he did have liver disease but lived quite a while longer and did die from the real deal and not suffer how he was suffering. it was terrible.
how far is it. my response to people is this. its only about 6 miles to the cemetery. I have never brought anyone back from the cemetery. you choose the trip. know this also. cancer is really hard on your spouse. I had a wife that totally tried to destroy my life. she did a pretty good job . her and her sisters put me into bankruptcy and made my life hell, bbc the television station from england did a study on 10 women that had breast cancer and how their lives went with their family from getting cancer to the remission or death.
the best one the ladys husband treated her like a princess through the whole deal. the worst. the husband burned the house. tried to kill her. bankrupted them did all kinds of terrible stuff. my wife was about a 8 on that scale. she still is doing stuff after 13 years. absolutely crazy . they just wont give up or do stuff right.
if you are dealing with cancer. conserve your energy. change your habits if you can. find the best doctor you can. get help from friends. it takes every thing you got to beat it. wish you the best. al cox
if you are feeling frustrated and would like to share a story or get some information I can help you with. 231-846-0346 anytime. if this little letter saves one more person. maybe its you ??? we are all in this together. who nose peace be with you.