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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Aaiiiiii! You could have warned us about posting that pic!
It was quite common among the U.S. soldiers in South Korea during the early 1960s (maybe still is), but it was easily cured by a couple large injections of penicillin then. Who knows? It may have gotten resistant nowadays. The OP doesn't know. You now know what I know.
Obama’s healthcare solution is to END (or postpone) cancer screenings and private pay WILL be going away under state mandated healthcare. That was revealed back when it was branded as Hillarycare.
Can’t have some people paying their own way for superior care, it sets up a two-tiered system.
What percentage of FW Weekly’s revenue comes from sex ads in the “back” of the paper and online?
That’s what keeps the free hippie sex papers owned by Village Voice Media in print.
Jimmy Carter's fault!!!
If Planned Parenthood refuses to release their numbers, where does a “fact” like “30+% of all American women have had an abortion” come from?
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