Re: Diet, testing, and DA

Cheri wrote:
>
> Absolutely true, and the example I gave of what happened to me, is only
> one of many. A female doctor who told me in my late forties that she
> doesn't give physicals to women under 50 is another good example. Also
> when I was diagnosed with diabetes, a nurse called and said my fasting
> BG was 292, and to lay off concentrated sweets. Nothing else. I found my
> own dietitian, and followed her advice for awhile with bad results. Then
> I found these groups. I'm very glad I did. Others may have different
> experiences and love their doctors. Good for them. :-)
>
> --
> Cheri
>


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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