[SATLUG] [OT] - Anyone know of a good DR?

[Brian Lewis]

For anyone who wanted to know I posted a bit about this and some pictures 
on my blog. the pictures dont really do it as much justice as the initial 
surgery to close her up is only some stitches. She is going to need hours 
and hours of surgery to repair bone damage, but they couldn't do all that 
at the time as the trauma to her mouth was so severe. Her jaw is wired 
down as well, but her face is so swollen that she cant even open it. Im 
having to crush  her pills up and mix them with water so she can even take 
them.

The doctors who were working on her were very bad and didn't treat her 
well. They told her some very mean and rude things, and treated her like a 
patient without insurance, when she has very, very high end insurance (IE. 
$25 brain surgery). The reason the costs will be high is because 
university hospital isn't in her network, and it was the trauma center in 
rotation. So rather than getting her insurance's approval or sending her 
to somewhere approved, they just shipped her to the trauma center in 
rotation. I'm not sure what I can do about this, but I will figure that 
out in time.

Anyway, the pictures are located at 
http://www.astr0.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=1

Thanks,
Brian Lewis

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Brad Knowles wrote:

> On 11/15/07, Brian Lewis wrote:
>
>>  The kicker is that we got into a 4 hour argument earlier in the night
>>  which ended in her saying she wishes she were with my father, who died
>>  about 2 1/2 months ago. :((
>
> There are a lot of things that we sometimes say or do (or don't say or do), 
> and then something happens to make us really regret that.
>
>
> I really regret that I didn't call my mom during the time that turned out to 
> be the last three weeks of her life.  The last I heard, she was doing well, 
> her oncologist was talking about her being his next patient to make it to the 
> three year mark with her extremely aggressive form of cancer (initial 
> prognosis was two to ten weeks, and she made it just past two years), and I 
> guess I wasn't too worried.
>
> I got the call from my Dad at 8:45am on October 9th of this year (a month and 
> four days ago), saying that she had thrown up blood the night before, they 
> had taken her to the hospital, and she was now in the process of having the 
> blood pumped out of her stomach and she was giving them a real fight and kept 
> pulling the tube out of her mouth, and that I might want to consider thinking 
> about starting to make some arrangements to come back home.  I made some 
> calls to the hospital to get a more complete picture of what was really going 
> on, I called my two cousins who live in town and usually keep in pretty close 
> touch with my parents, and while I was on the phone at 9:45am I got a call 
> from the hospital that she'd had a seizure and had already died.
>
> I think she knew how much we all loved her, but at no time during that three 
> week period of time did I bother to pick up the phone and call her, and tell 
> her that I loved her.  And now I'll never be able to call her again.
>
>
> Your mom is still alive, and you've got a chance to heal what could have been 
> a long-lasting emotional wound between you and her, and maybe resulted in 
> something far worse happening in the future.
>
> I know you've got a lot of pain you've already gone through over this, and 
> there will probably be more pain in the future.  But I'd still encourage you 
> to see this as a sign, and count your blessings that you still have the 
> opportunity to put things right with her.
>
> -- 
> Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org>
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