Betty Brink, Staff writer for Fort Worth Weekly for past 14 years, 40 years as a journalist
Posted on 03/07/2012 1:42:32 PM PST by manic4organic
In 1980, Dwinna Barker was a divorced mother in Amarillo who had just lost one of her two young children to Reyes syndrome. She had also been laid off from a well-paid job.
“After two months of unemployment, I was lucky to find work with Bell Helicopter in the Fort Worth area, which I badly needed. … I was desperate with all the unpaid medical bills and another small child and no help whatsoever,” she said. Her insurance had expired just days before her daughter was diagnosed with Reyes, a nearly always fatal disease that attacks the brains and livers of children, but whose cause is unknown.
She took the “lowest job on the totem pole” at Bell, but at least it included health insurance.
Within a few months, Barker began bleeding vaginally “all the time,” she said, and suffered severe pelvic pain. She went to a gynecologist in the Bell insurance program who treated her with multiple antibiotics for several months, diagnosing her with gonorrhea even though he had not done any cultures. “I was not getting better, and I could not take more time off work. I was desperate,” she said.
Cover03_07_12A friend recommended she go to Planned Parenthood. “I didn’t even know what they did.” She got her first exam there for $6. “I couldn’t believe it,” she said.
The doctor at the reproductive health clinic gave her a complete exam, including cultures, and called her back within a few days. There was no sign of gonorrhea but something much worse.
“I had uterine cancer,” she said. “They gave me the name of a surgeon and told me to see him ASAP.” Barker had an emergency hysterectomy.
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Other than she probably had a malpractice case against the first gynecologist, what’s the point? Is she accusing Bell of deliberately selecting crappy OB-GYNs for their health care plan?
She went to a gynecologist in the Bell insurance program who treated her with multiple antibiotics for several months, diagnosing her with gonorrhea even though he had not done any cultures.
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Wouldn’t several months of antibiotics have cleared up any gonorrhea or does that disease stay with you forever?
It sound too unrealistic, and is simply a pretext for affirming Planned Infanticide, but Sadaam is said to have loved his kids.
Hey FReepers, look around your office. Do you see a ‘War on Women’? More likely, you see a ‘War By Women’.
“Her insurance had expired just days before her daughter was diagnosed with Reyes...”
Now how smart was she. Again, we have to pay for the unwise.
Deny.insurance.to.all.women.who.have.ever.had.an.abortion.
These are the lies they get away with every day.
So what she is saying here is that with the "lowest job on the totem pole" at Bell Helicopter, she was able to insure her family and herself-- even her daughter that has a pre-existing condition?
“I had uterine cancer,” she said. “They gave me the name of a surgeon and told me to see him ASAP.” Barker had an emergency hysterectomy.
So what she is saying is that she sought a second opinion as is often recomended and then her insurance paid for the surgery needed, based on that second opinion?
What is the problem?
I hope to God that 30% of all women have had an abortion figure is a lie also!
Dwinna Barker = 9/11 Truther
http://www.facebook.com/dwinna
Interests:
The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
The White House
Tejano Democrats of North Texas
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Betty Brink, Staff writer for Fort Worth Weekly for past 14 years, 40 years as a journalist
Excellent find. Appears Dwinna is quite the complete leftist moonbat which just happens not to be disclosed in the article.
Excellent find. Appears Dwinna is quite the complete leftist moonbat which just happens not to be disclosed in the article.
When I lived in Beaumont, Texas, I had a child in college, at Lamar University, but I went back to school to take journalism classes at Lamar, too. I got involved in the student protest movement because my kids were involved, and my husband and I were already active in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam-war movements. The students put out an underground paper, which was mostly done at my kitchen table.
I wrote for papers and magazines, doing what I saw as advocacy journalism. Publications like The Texas Observer, Southern Exposure and The Progressive definitely had an agenda and a political stand that they took and that I agreed with. I wrote for papers like that, but I also wrote for mainstream papers like the Star Telegram.
Barker, Dwinna Crowley, TX 76036
Unemployed/Legal Assistant
OBAMA, BARACK (D)
President OBAMA FOR AMERICA
$200 general, 10/08/08
BARKER, DWINNA
contributed $100
to candidates and committees
in Texas in 2004
Dwinna Barker - dwinna@northtxbroadband.com
Dwinna Barker -
Huffington Post
Member Since August 2009
What war on women?
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