Auggie needs life sustaining surgery

[Auggie56]

However, two hospitals have refused to give it to me. I'm down at this point but not out. The explication is political from what I have heard from a couple of these talk broadcasts, I'll see if I can find and post the official story and post it there.

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[PlymCrazy]

Hope you're ok Auggie and that all works out favorably for you man

 

[WileE]

Sincerely hopeful that your situation works out for you, there should be no reason whatsoever by anyone in the medical profession to deprive you of the care you need.

 

[Dave6T4]

Jeez, Augie, I hope you find the care you need, and you are around with us for a long while, yet.

 

[1967coronet]

Thats not good,
Hope you can get in and taken care of.

 

[GetX'd]

You live fairly close to the renowned Cleveland Clinic - They can’t help you?! God be with you and may his intervention fulfill your needs. There’s no reason for you to be denied care that could save your life or not without it.

 

[HawkRod]

I agree with @GetX'd
If the two hospitals are not doing what you need, seek out another doctor, hospital, whatever. Unfortunately, these days you need to drive your own health care, and the squeaky wheel gets the grease...

Get better!

 

[Sam69sat]

^^^^ This is right ^^^^

You need someone to advocate for you. Hope you get the treatment you deserve.

 

[Detective D]

Not sure on your situation.
If it is a desperation type moment(I hope not) look into what you can do in Europe. I work with a guy that has lived in the USA since he was 19 and has maintained his citizenship in Belgium for decades, where he can go to have healthcare that costs him very little and isn't tied up in red tape and profit margins.

In the USA, the only experience I have is as above, you need to find not just the hospitol but the "company" of healthcare that has it's priorities right. In WI, Thedacare is a pill pushing never see an actual qualified doctor insurance sucking chain of buildings with near a monopoly. So I never go there, I seek out one of the 3 alternatives despite it being a drive sometimes. Not sure how far you have looked, but check to see if the deniers are under the same umbrella corp.
I can say, my father received extremely passive care and could have lived at least a couple years longer if we had gone down to Saint Lukes in Millwaukee sooner. By the time local place sent him there it was too late and he never left, which actually pissed off the surgeons down there as they asked about his history. Funny, the actual doctors were angry the ones up here didn't do better. It takes real doctors to care.

Healthcare is a manufactured issue in the USA, built from the ground up now to pass money around at our expense, in more ways then one. You have to fight for your life nowdays, and that is no exageration.

 

[demonram]

I hope all goes well for you sir! Thoughts and prayers to you and your family!

 

[oldkimmer]

I really hope u can get the help u need. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Kim

 

[moparedtn]

I'll be the first to admit about confusion over the "political" aspect of whatever is happening, sir -
but regardless, prayers from this ridge for you!
(These other fellas are right, by the way - if not for me getting downright ornery, more than once,
with various insurance/medical people, I'd already be gone myself - so give 'em hell! )

 

[Auggie56]

Finally got to see a doctor. I have been dealing with an infection, if not treated it could get worse. So far no improvement in what the doctor has me doing.

 

[oldkimmer]

Sorry to hear this. My prayers are sent. Kim

 

[eldubb440]

comon Auggie....... you got this

 

[Auggie56]

Thanks, people, it's been since February since I have been trying to get treatment. I had built up in my head that I wasn't going to last long. I was lacking "Gastric Motility", meaning I couldn't have BMs. I was turned away four times, by two hospitals and two doctors. I thought I was headed towards a "Colonoscopy", where a nonfunctioning lower intestine is removed and you are stuck with a bag on your abdomen, you empty twice a day till day's end. I finally saw a doctor in a teaching hospital, along with two interns. (They must have needed a patient as subject material, I told myself jokingly.). Anyway, the muscles in the bottom of my Pelvis are under high tension, and maybe blocking the process. They told me it's quite common. I'm in physical therapy to loosen them up. This may or may not work the doctor said. So you're thinking just how was I able to have a BM, since my body function wasn't working? Over-the-counter preparations I tried and none worked. On my own, I have consumed two liters of water over three or four hours followed by a strong laxative called "Magnesium Citrate", which after a few hours allowed me to purge water along with the stuff, you know what I mean. I do this every other day, which ties me home till done. I'm hoping this PT works.

 

[VANDAN]

Aggie, I don't know if you've tried taking a "dose" of olive oil daily, like a "shotglass" full. I'm not sure if it would help, but we're hearing very good things about it...

 

[Auggie56]

Aggie, I don't know if you've tried taking a "dose" of olive oil daily, like a "shotglass" full. I'm not sure if it would help, but we're hearing very good things about it...

That's one of the things I heard. I tried a large cup of warm prune juice and nothing. At this point, it appears to be pelvic muscles with me.

Thanks for your input.

 

[Auggie56]

Sincerely hopeful that your situation works out for you, there should be no reason whatsoever by anyone in the medical profession to deprive you of the care you need.

I'm in my seventies on Medicare and per their rules doctors if they can't help you are obligated to refer you to someone who can help you.

 

[Dave6T4]

For me, it is black licorice.