I’m glad they were helpful. Be strong in the Lord, FRiend.
I just want to say thank you to everybody for all your prayers...
Dave just called me and said the MRI came back clear and normal showing no tumors... So Praise the Lord!
The Doctor suggested he go to his primary care doctor and get a basic physical, get checked for diabetes and have blood pressure monitored. This doctor that is helping him has gone WAY over and above. This was a $60 eye exam he had at Midwestern University, so he is a doctor overseeing students learning to be optometrists. Dave told him he does not have a regular doctor and the Doctor said well the university does that training too and referred him to that program... He told Dave to call him back with his appointment time so he can call and talk to whoever he will be seeing before hand.
I feel like this is working the only way possible for it to actually work, as Dave is an alcoholic... during one of the tests they did the other day, I pulled the doctor off to the side and told him that. He asked how much he drinks and I told him I had nothing but a guess based on something Dave told me years ago, that he was drinking 2 handles a week, so I told him probably at least a fifth a day.
He won’t listen to any advice I give him and usually will go the opposite of what I say... After the first appointment and they told him the same thing, go get your blood pressure checked and a diabetes test. The first thing I told him when he called me, is if it were me, I would go to Walgreens and get a cheap blood pressure monitor... So I could check and chart it every morning and night plus anytime vision blurred out (the blurred vision came and went when he first got checked). Also make a doctor appointment to get a physical and then when you walk in the door, you can hand him a chart of what it has been between now and then. But he opted to fill the 300 eyeglass prescription instead and wait for the 30 day follow up to see if it fixed itself. So prayers for me to bite my tongue have worked too... For now anyway, when the emergency is passed, sometime in the future, I will probably have to mention it could have saved him some stress and $$ if he would have taken my advice... but I told you so was not going to help anything now.
So continued prayers for Dave would be appreciated... He has been a functional alcoholic for 25 years probably. He always got up and went to work and kept his house up better than I do... Just a high school graduate that has done numerous things... Shipping and receiving, Service writer at a Saturn dealer and even trained to fix laser levels for a couple years, so he is not stupid, but He would get fed up and change jobs every few years... usually quitting them, so no unemployment and he found another one. If he got fired, he would take a break for a couple weeks and not search real hard when he had benefits coming in... but he always got one before they ran out. What I believe wrecked him was the 99 week extended benefits. It changed him, taking some functionality out and giving him a really bad attitude, he could make as much sitting at home as he did dealing with these idiots (his words)... It was somewhat understandable in that he was dealing with stupid people doing stupid things and just was not going to put himself through that every day, so I get it, would not have even been a problem if he did not sit at home and get into the bottle. Now in the past 2 or 3 years he has probably only worked a few months because he has an attitude problem... but does have savings and a healthy Roth too, so providing for himself and simply does not see a problem.