-------------------- Judy G. Posts: 122 | From Minnesota | Registered: Dec 2008
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Starfall1969
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I haven't even been diagnosed yet, and I've had people telling me to stop wasting my husband's money and just get over myself. One friend told me to start eating yogurt and fruit and drinking water (not that those aren't good suggestions) and stop trying to find out what's wrong. i get so mad when people say things like that. That's what the doctor told my dad when my dad was puking for 3 months--it's jusst a bug, rest and drink fluids and it'll pass. he died from colon/liver cancer 3 years ago, and i still want to kill that doctor! I feel for you, and I agree that it's a matter of educatibg people. I also said to a doctor who believes my illness is real, that I wish I could cast of these symptoms on these other doctors, the ones who say I just need a psychiatrist, just for a few days. Then they'd know what I feel is REAL. Posts: 1682 | From Dillsburg, PA | Registered: Sep 2008
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quote:Originally posted by Starfall1969: I also said to a doctor who believes my illness is real, that I wish I could cast of these symptoms on these other doctors, the ones who say I just need a psychiatrist, just for a few days. Then they'd know what I feel is REAL.
What about writing a script for a play or film on this idea?! My turn for a Posts: 13171 | From San Francisco | Registered: May 2006
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Oooooh, Robin, if only I had the talent, the time, and the ambition to do that! I used to write poetry, but I haven't even done that for so long. Not so much from the illness end of it, but time constraints with 2 preschoolers. Posts: 1682 | From Dillsburg, PA | Registered: Sep 2008
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my father also died from colon cancer, im sorry for your loss and feel for you...
just curious which idiot doc told him that ?
my dad too had an idiot who first told him that he was sick and going to die soon, and was very rude about it, it was at fox chase cancer center in phila, pa.
they have no heart there, infact unfortunately they they see it all so often that to them its just like a basic oil change for a car.
i wish that all doctors would also have a heart and a genuine will to help people and understand them, rather than the standards from which they all learned their basics from and thats all they go on.
best regards, eric
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