Posted on 04/20/2016 5:03:01 PM PDT by Kaslin
that’s cool and good.
But I probably wrongly interpreted that stossel wanted you to decide on your own meds. that’s HARD with cancer, I would assume, but not impossible with a briefing on them by a doctor
I have the cell number of a specialist I see for a rare disorder. She knows I won’t abuse it by calling her for minor problems and that if I call it is serious. She usually tells me to meet her at the ER.
Stossel is one of the good ones, and I pray the cancer leaves his body.
Asbestos fibers, radon gas, familial predisposition and some cases chronic lung diseases like COPD (with or without a history of smoking) are also risk factors for lung cancer. For some reason the rate of women who get lung cancer but who had never been smokers or lived with smokers is on the increase.
Dana Reeve the widow of Christopher Reeve was one; never was a smoker and died at age 44, less than 2 years after her husbands death.
bmfl
Try any hospital after Obamacare came into being. Inept, incompetent, slow, reactions to drugs not noted on chart when event happens in front of the nurse, failure to include all drug bad reactions when admitted. Failure to preform right test once they think they have a diagnosis..Idiopathic Colitis is NOT Gastroparesis Slow Motility.
Having to wait hours on your next med, call buttons don’t work. No pillows, lack of blankets. Over SALTED liquid meals when your chart says LOW SODIUM for heart issues. That box of ENSURE has 15% sodium, and contains SOY....Thyroid patients are NOT allowed soy or grapefruit. The over salted broth smelt like a old fashion out house. Stunk the room up so bad even after the crap was removed it still stunk for a couple of hours with the door open to air out the room. Hanging IV meds you are allergic to in the middle of the night because NO one put it on your chart as a NO USE drug.
Cardio work up normally takes 3 hrs if you are patient 2 for the day. Took 5 hrs, incompetent tech punctured both veins and put the chems in the arm. Then had to wait 30+ mins for a nurse to be found to do her job of putting a IV cath that was the tiniest one I’d ever seen in. Nurse hit it first try.
Stress test doc was not on the floor for 45 mins with a packed house. One woman’s IV Cath fell OUT of her arm.
They don’t know what Senior Dehydration looks like much less that it needs to be treated then and there.
I HATE hospitals. ER’s come in first as they are slower moving. 6 hrs in a ER is to long to determine a GP flare from a non existent Colitis flare. Plus they can’t match IV cath gauges to your vein size and end up blowing good veins.
It’s not just being a smoker that will cause lung cancer. Lady from church died of lung cancer and she never smoked a day in her life.
Lost both of my parents to it though. All caught to late to treat. My Dad actually died of narcotic OD which stopped his heart, but Lung Cancer was the listed cause of death. Suspect same thing happened to my Mom as she survived longer than my dad did, the VA gave him 6 weeks, he was having chest x-rays every 3 months, and they failed to find it, he made 3 months, Mom was given 3 months and made 6 months.
What about all those coal minors breathing that dust way back before there were safety regs Grandpa had Black Lung from it. A bout of pneumonia actually was cause of death.
” I dont wish cancer on my worst enemy.”
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I agree,but I’ve seen people die painful deaths from cancer,and other diseases, that had good,healthy living habits.
It comes to us all.
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If it’s oat cell, that’s bad. Some lung cancers are operable.
Agree, Stossel is a good guy!!!
Hope he beats this!!!!
4L
God Kas, at first I thought YOU had cancer.
John Stossel, poor guy, I hope he beats it.
I do hope too he beats it.
The one word title of the article also. That made me think it was a vanity.
The Rochester Mayo Clinic is a marvel of dedication and expertise that reminds one what much of America used to be.
Even despite the destructive idiocy of Obamacare.
The article was also on the Fox News site, and Fox News reported about it yesterday on one of the morning programs.
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