Re: Diet, testing, and DA

Vicki, what horrible things to have happen to your mom and how very sad
for her and for everybody who loved her. I'm with you on the cynical
part and I'll never blindly follow a doctors advice again either.

--
Cheri

Vicki Beausoleil wrote in message <42F8F4CF.CB13F125@xxxxxxxxxxxx>...

>
>
>Cheri, let me tell you about my mother. She was hit by a drunk driver
in
>1947 when she was 19. Her toe was tagged and she was put in a closet on
>a gurney to die. When they realized the next morning she was still
>alive, she was moved to a bed.
>
>She lived, but had severed her spinal cord in the neck. She was a
>paraplegic. When her wounds had healed, she was sent to a
rehabilitation
>facility set up for war vets. In order to strengthen her arms to be
able
>to handle a wheelchair, she was hung up holding a chin-up bar and her
>wheelchair was taken away. A doctor once ripped a bandage off her leg,
>leaving open flesh. She had a 4" x 4" square scar on her leg.
>
>This is where my mom met my dad and I was born...
>
>She developed a pressure sore on her left hip. A doctor ordered a UV
>lamp treatment. The chart said 30 seconds, a nurse left it on for 30
>minutes. The sore was so big and so deep it was packed with a
half-dozen
>36" dressings. She eventually lost her left leg and most of her left
>hip, including part of the pelvis, because of this.
>
>Her hips were fused in a sitting position. While at another rehab
centre
>recovering from the amputation, she was mishandled by a nurse and fell
>forward. It snapped the bone in her remaining leg just below the hip
>joint. When the doctor saw the x-rays for her fracture, he found a
>needle embedded in her thigh. He accused her of having sewing needles
in
>bed, which she never did.
>The fracture never healed and she had her right leg amputated.
>
>She eventually died of kidney failure. She had 30% function in one
>kidney since her accident.
>
>This is why I'm such a cynic. I ***WILL NOT*** trust doctors blindly
>like my mother did. She had many occasions where malpractice was put
>upon her. She chose to do nothing. I won't.
>
>Vicki


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