Re: Getting appointment -Update

November 20, 2007

I realize that appointments take a bit with good institutions, I'm just venting

and frustrated I guess.? I feel like at the rate i'm going, I may be dead by

then.? Seriously.? after this weekends incident and the incompetence of the docs

that are treating me, I feel like I am treating myself.? i am actually the one

who has been ordering most of the tests through my own office, researching on

the internet what to do, etc.? And I had to explain some of the tests to the

endo last week at a local hospital!!!What's up with that? After the ER doc told

my husband that the reason i was losing consciousness and unresponsive was

either I was a drug addict or in a depressive catatonic state, I realized they

are going to be useless.? I mean, I am a midwife and I teaching nursing students

at that hospital.? am i depressed? yeah, because right now i feel like crap and

can't work.? I have 3 women due (I do homebirths), have a million calls to

return, 5 kids to care for, a messy house, a husband who is beyond stressed

about finances, we may lose the house without my income and with all the extra

bills (anyone lose their house? or go into foreclosure? maybe you could email me

your experience and tips, we can't sell it right now, we owe more than we would

get adding inthe bills and commissions, we would be short 25K).

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Anyway, I don't think 2 months or more is unreasonable, I justget so frustrated

feeling so bad.? I watch my sister go from totally healthy, more so than I , to

have almost daily seizures, increased cranial pressure, increased optical

pressure, brain damage from hitting her head, so dizzy she can't walk, etc. and

it frightens me.? And she is on medical assistance and can't go to the institute

like I can.? i am going to drag her along for the appointment so she can see and

hear what they say to me, but that means I have to pay for her airflight, hotel,

etc since she is in tennessee.

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anyone have good recommendations for pituitary tumors and/or endo's? i am

willing to travel, my tests are pointing to either cushings or

addisons-opposites I know, that's what's so weird, the fluctuations.?

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Barb C. in PA

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