I took a friend to the emergency room at 3am Saturday morning.

[riverbendviewgal]

56. You gave us all an important message

which is to pay attention to your body's pain.

I cut out some of your story and kept the parts about what your friend was diagnosed with and forwarded to my friends.
and how the doctors' tend to give advice like they did to your friend for over a year


Pay attention to your body. My late husband insisted he had a lump near his belly button and the GP said it was just stress and felt nothing. After the 3rd visit the GP had a CT done. I will never forget the look on the GP's face when he looked at the scan for the FIRST time while we were his office. There WAS a lump on the screen. My husband had Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma it turns out.

There were still screw ups and he got surgery instead of a biopsy. and the chemo and rad were delayed a few months because he had to go a round of doctors first. Finally when his belly started looking like a 9 month old pregnant woman my husband insisted he be sent to the same cancer center our son was going to for a brain tumor. The GP, hematologist and surgeons wanted to start right away after hearing my husband wanted to change physicians but hubby would not consent. He did get to see the head hematologist at the cancer center our son was going to and started chemo the same day he saw the specialist.

We learned the hard way, doctors are not gods.