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In Reply to: Re: Faith, doctors and treatment. posted by sarafina on February 23, 2006 at 00:08:53:
There is so much documentation about cancer and how catching it in the early stages will more often than not result in treatment that sends it into remission or even erradicates it.
Since I have been able to have regular medical care, it's so comforting to know that if I get regular testing, I can avoid so many illnesses that if left unchecked, will cause major health problems and even death.
My daughter got a bone infection when we were on government aid, but the children's hospital took care of everything. She had to get huge shots of penicillen and be monitored. It was a scary experience, but I was so happy to have such wonderful care and good medical practioners to look out for her. Imagine if that had been in TF - I shudder to think.
Then there was a time when I was in TF and my toddler son was born with hernia. I was trying to get a physician to operate on him as we were overseas and had no money. The home shepherds could care less. One day I noticed that he was lying on the bed and wouldn't move. His body was all red. I told the shepherd I had to take him to the hospital immediately. This was the same shepherd whom I told the story about below. I was in this home as punishment for whatever sins I was supposedly having. Well, we did rush to the hospital at my insistance and they rushed him into the operating room. After a few hours the doctor came out and said it was touch and go, they had a hard time, but they were finally able to fix the problem. It is only a miracle that he didn't die and it would have been TF's fault for ignoring my pleas to get the matter resolved way before it became an emergency.
My mom died of ovarian cancer. It was a horrible experience, watching her suffer in pain. By the time we knew what she had it was really too late. They operated on her and found the cancer, so they operated again. But it was more than they thought, so they were sending her back to the operating room. When the docs came in (my mom was 80), she looked up at them and shook her finger and said "You made a mistake." She didn't want to live that way, with tubes and operations and chemo. She felt that if it was her time, they should just let her go. It was a difficult time. Two doctors wanted to be agressive and treat it with chemo. Another doctor did not agree. She felt that at her age, the quality of life should be considered and she didn't think it was worth it.
There are always different schools of thought and it's wise to get different opinions. But I am very thankful for the medical care that we do have. The good and the bad.
