Tuesday 3-16-10

I'll keep it short and sweet. I was sick as a dog yesterday. There was nothing funny about it, so I didn't enter it in the blog. Besides, I never left the bed and the couch. I'm not sure if it was food poison, flue, or a reaction to the antibiotic. I was able to get out of bed today to go to two different doctors.

It's 11am and Sharon and I are in Dr Adami, office. I quickly get my blood work done, and then sit until 12:30 in order to see Dr. Adami. I do like the man, but I hate to wait. Since I believe I have the flue, we decided to wait until at least Thursday to have more chemo. Dr. Rushing has ordered smaller quantities of the two different medicines. Since they both believe that I had radiation re-call and not an infection, they want to get started right away.

After Adami's office I went directly to the emergency room of the hospital so I could see the Infectious decease doctor, Dr. Hemachandra. She is a very nice lady, but here medical background is a little less than stellar. She went to school in Granada. You know, the place we had to invade to save our students. She had to go through residency and internship somewhere, but I'm not sure where. Now are you ready for this explanation as to why I got the treatment I received. As she said from the beginning, an infection like she thought I had, can kill you if untreated. ( Now Mr. Obama, here is why Tort Reform is so important) She realized with the second trip to the hospital that I just wasn't as sick as someone with an infection. She was reluctant to take me off the medicine because she could get taken to court if for some reason I did have an infection. She said when she heard Dr. Rushing's explanation she knew then she had made a mistake. However, she didn't stop giving me the infusion until she could see me. Thank God I got sick, or I would have had two more infusions of that )&)()_&)*(.

All together (They practice medicine and if you let them, they will practice on you!!!!!!!)
She is a very nice person and she did apologize to me. She said that if it did come back with a high fever, to call her.

Now, can you believe how much money was spent on a mis-diagnosis. 30 days at over $1,000.00 just for the medicine. Then there is the emergency room that I had to go to each day. Two stays in the hospital for a total of 9 days. It had to cost close to $80,000.00 for a mistake in a diagnosis. I hope they don't tell my insurance company. They canceled my homeowners after two natural disasters flooded my basement. Both time the power went out that caused the problem. Once we were gone for two weeks and some water got in the basement when the sumpump was off. The second time we had an ice storm and we were out of our house for a week just before Christmas, and the pipes burst. How in the hell do you prevent that kind of loss???

Well one good thing, I have Insurance and Medicare. Please Mr. Obama don't reduce Medicare buy 600 billion.

More tomorrow, Tom