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Today I go to a doctor, and when I tell him I want to try a new medication, he listens to me. We discuss the pros and cons, I have done the research on the side effects, I bring in my list of questions, and he gives me his opinion and we decide what is best together. Also, if I am sick, I call and get in to him and I can ask for a chest x-ray if I am worried that it might be bronchitis or pneumonia even if he doesn't hear anything, but I am having difficulty breathing, or if I have a deep cough that is productive, I may ask for one just to be sure. I have said no to medications and I have decided to change my medications and he has let me, only for me to find out that the certain medication didn't work for me and we went back to the one that did work.
Now why do I have to mess with something that is working? Maybe I don't like the side effects I am seeing, but when I try a new one, maybe the side effects of the other one are worth the stability of the old one.
Now I am sitting here, totally unstable, with very few people to talk to because of the secrecy of my family, and I have a family member who has a very large mass on her lung that has protruded through her lung wall, and it's almost certain that it is cancerous. Why has it gotten this far? Because my family refuses to go to the doctor until it is too late. I CAN'T HANDLE THIS ON MY OWN!!!!
My family is not a family I can discuss this stuff with and I have almost no one to talk to about it who isn't busy with other things. I have no money to pay for therapy, and I have only a few outlets to deal with this.l I can't do death again right now. That is why I am going to change my meds back to what I was on before so I can get stable. My doctor feels he can help me get situated with an LCSW through a grant program, but he's not sure. I am going to go crazy.
Right now I am about to lose it. I've lost almost all my support and I don't know where to turn next. One day at a time, one moment at a time I will make it. I just hope God sends someone my way to stand beside me through this.
It claims so many lives. Cancer comes in so many forms and it seems that my family is so oblivious to the fact that it runs through our veins and blood lines so thickly that they just ignore the fact that they need to stay on top of their health. Who knows what would have happened if my Grandma had been going to a doctor that wasn't such a pill pusher and who actually cared about his patients, and if she only would have been more in charge of her health care, maybe she would have been diagnosed with liver cancer many years ago and been able to get a liver transplant in time for her to still be alive today. But no, no one in my family takes care of themselves or takes charge of their own health care and makes the doctors listen to them.
Nobody in my family other than me and my cousin Amy have been to a 4 year University, and I doubt that even she knows that she is in charge of what the doctor does, says, prescribes..etc.
When I took my first health class in college, it was Women's Health. I was taught that I was the one holding all the cards. It was up to me to tell the doctor what was wrong with me, what my symptoms were, what I wanted done, what tests I felt I needed or didn't need, and whether or not I wanted to fill the prescriptions.
I hate cancer. It takes too many lives. It has tried to take too many friends from me, and luckily some have made it out alive. I am grateful for those who have made it through it, and I miss those who didn't make it. I just want to make it through this one. I don't know how my family will handle this right around the anniversary of the loss of my grandmother, which is in 3 days....April 8, 2006 was when we lost her to liver cancer...and it still hurts so much.
God please protect us, hold us close, and help us stay together through this.
Now why do I have to mess with something that is working? Maybe I don't like the side effects I am seeing, but when I try a new one, maybe the side effects of the other one are worth the stability of the old one.
Now I am sitting here, totally unstable, with very few people to talk to because of the secrecy of my family, and I have a family member who has a very large mass on her lung that has protruded through her lung wall, and it's almost certain that it is cancerous. Why has it gotten this far? Because my family refuses to go to the doctor until it is too late. I CAN'T HANDLE THIS ON MY OWN!!!!
My family is not a family I can discuss this stuff with and I have almost no one to talk to about it who isn't busy with other things. I have no money to pay for therapy, and I have only a few outlets to deal with this.l I can't do death again right now. That is why I am going to change my meds back to what I was on before so I can get stable. My doctor feels he can help me get situated with an LCSW through a grant program, but he's not sure. I am going to go crazy.
Right now I am about to lose it. I've lost almost all my support and I don't know where to turn next. One day at a time, one moment at a time I will make it. I just hope God sends someone my way to stand beside me through this.
It claims so many lives. Cancer comes in so many forms and it seems that my family is so oblivious to the fact that it runs through our veins and blood lines so thickly that they just ignore the fact that they need to stay on top of their health. Who knows what would have happened if my Grandma had been going to a doctor that wasn't such a pill pusher and who actually cared about his patients, and if she only would have been more in charge of her health care, maybe she would have been diagnosed with liver cancer many years ago and been able to get a liver transplant in time for her to still be alive today. But no, no one in my family takes care of themselves or takes charge of their own health care and makes the doctors listen to them.
Nobody in my family other than me and my cousin Amy have been to a 4 year University, and I doubt that even she knows that she is in charge of what the doctor does, says, prescribes..etc.
When I took my first health class in college, it was Women's Health. I was taught that I was the one holding all the cards. It was up to me to tell the doctor what was wrong with me, what my symptoms were, what I wanted done, what tests I felt I needed or didn't need, and whether or not I wanted to fill the prescriptions.
I hate cancer. It takes too many lives. It has tried to take too many friends from me, and luckily some have made it out alive. I am grateful for those who have made it through it, and I miss those who didn't make it. I just want to make it through this one. I don't know how my family will handle this right around the anniversary of the loss of my grandmother, which is in 3 days....April 8, 2006 was when we lost her to liver cancer...and it still hurts so much.
God please protect us, hold us close, and help us stay together through this.
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