Everyone else has answered you with encouragement and I'm still 368
emails behind so maybe I'm not up to date on everything but I sure will
be praying for you as well as myself. Life is so hard sometimes. I loved
what your sister and Mom said!!!!!!!
The only thing I can add - I know how angry you must have felt as
though that Doctor was pushing you off - one time I tried to get my
family Doc to see Bill (the one with TM)....and he wouldn't do it -
something about VA benefits and how Bill can get things free at the VA.
In the old days, a Doctor would see you no matter what, and would do
what was needed. But,......about TEACHING HOSPITALS - I like them,
myself.
There was a tv show on recently about being a part of research and
about how sometimes that isn't very good (depending on the
situation)...so that is the other side of the coin. I don't know what it
would be like to be in a research project. Bill would love to be in
one. He's thinking of volunteering since he's been in a wheelchair
since 85 and the VA has done almost nothing to help.
But, back to what I was saying. I love teaching hospitals. I was in
one here in Louisville in 84 when I had my car wreck and I cried when I
had to leave after 10 days! Then I went back and forth to it to get
re-checked. After that, I had to have a surgery and they would have
sent me to any hospital but I chose the teaching hospital again. Bill
was sent there once - no he "went" there in 96 and he personally didn't
like it but I didn't see anything wrong with it myself. I think he was
too too sick that time to make a judgement. At least (he was an
emergency)....at least a huge crowd or trauma team was around him and he
never paid a penny. He claims they didn't do one test very well and I
don't know---I wasn't in there for that but I saw most of what they did.
I don't know what city you are in - and I haven't been back to
University of Louisville lately - since 96 - so I don't know but I've
heard it is still real good.
Bill's sister, Laurie, had cancer, and has by now passed away, but
she used to drive from Alabama to Cincinnati to go to a teaching
hospital there. It was her first choice of places to go. Her husband
could have taken her anywhere but she chose that place.
Hang in there!!!! Things must seem awful right now, but you will
get through this. You sound like a real neat person!!!!
Barb D. in Louisville who takes care of a pack of cats and Bill