BeckyTice

Becky, I am hoping I can give you some more direction but I am not a lawyer so I can't give any legal advice. I do have some suggestions for you and I have asked a legal nurse consultant friend of mine for any contacts she may have in that area.
shoot me an email to whatnextjen2020 at gmail dot com. You may also wish to join my Facebook group I had started when things slowed down here.
I wish Chicago Sandy would pop up to give you some hints or maybe she has a contact in your area.

We must be related - about the same age. My original diagnosis was Stage IV rectal cancer. I am 4 years out and have been NED ever since. I never take anything for grant. I have a colostomy and had hernia repair surgery last year - best that I've felt ever since. Best wishes!

Hi BeckyTice, sorry to read you are going back in for surgery. You said you were cancer free in 2016 then a year later your doctor says" I hope you didn't wait too long." Is that right? Weren't they monitoring you everybody three months?

Hi, I do know what you mean about cheated. I haven't had an easy life. I'm not bitter, but I'm tired. There have been times that people would say--God won't give you more than you can bear-carry. There have been times that I told God and people that God made a mistake. I'm not as strong as He thinks I am.

People say that God is teaching me a lesson. I ask- What lesson? Tell me. I'd like to know.

I had a colono-endoscopy Feb 9. I went to the pharmacy about 10 days before the 9th to pick up my monthly meds, so it wouldn't fall on my family, and I wouldn't be standing in line around sick people after the 9th A woman walked by-coughing and sneezing. Her companion reached out and touched her arm. I knew that it was something bad.

I woke up in the recovery room without a voice-truely mute, horrible headache, high fever, coughing blood, nose and sinus running like a raging fever, extreme heart burn, high blood pressure, breathing problems, I should not have been sent home, as the more I recovered, the sicker and weaker I got. I was sent home. A few hours later I dehydrated and was vomiting black- projectile black from bile.My son took me to the ER

2 weeks ago, I was told that there was a Whooping Cough epidemic-and I must have had Whooping Cough come full bloom during my procedure.

They say that I'll still have coughing spells and times of bad voice until Christmas or so---- I'm getting physically strong--but it shouldn't have taken a week or so for me to get an appointment-they kept asking to speak to me, my son told them that I was unable to speak and they hung up on him--- Things like that.

I am fatigued on so many levels.

Hi Becky. I hope that your emotions are starting to settle down by now.

Cancer is such an emotional roller coaster. I didn't know if I was coming or going, and my oncologist said that I was handling it very well. Good Gravy Louise---

I just hope that you've sort have figured things out for yourself. For me, the first thing was if I trusted my doctors? If they made sense. Of course, getting my affairs in order.

God bless you with this. If you don't believe in god, please understand that I'm sending you positive vibes and spiritual hugs.

P.P.S. Talk anytime you want on my wall. See we have a few things in common besides wonderful husbands. I lost my confidence also when misdiagnosed. Sorry for all of your surgical problems. That sucks.

Becky, just a P.S., talk to your husband openly and honestly about your feelings. There should be no secrets between good friends. Please, do not use the word disfigurement. It is a negative word.I hope sometime in the near future you will be able to put this feeling behind you and move forward. Wishing you better days.

Becky, I have to agree Jalemans on this one I lost mine to a big tumor and a hernia repair a few years ago. Doctors left me with a large scar which circled the area around the old belly button. I posted a picture as my kids would say I look like a shark bite victim.

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