Re: in Florida

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Peggy here from Michigan. I use to live in Florida, about 5 years

ago and had the best pain doctor I have ever had since. I am so

sorry to hear about all your medical problems and now yet a lump in

your breast to boot. I would ask your insurance company or the

doctor " gatekeeper " to rush you to have your biopsy done as that is

one thing you do not want to wait on. Most hospitals know of support

groups in the area and if at all possible please see if you can join

them, especially in the area of cancer support, if this is shown

after the biopsy. Your insurance, and if your husband's company has

insurance, they should have covered you as well. Anyway you can have

help in the home, homecare or housekeeping or anything else that you

qualify for I am sure your family needs help in this area,

especially with all that you are going through. Please reach out to

others for strength and support as often as you can.

There is also a lot of good information on the web; see American Pain

Foundation, American Chronic Pain, Doctors for Pain, National Society

for the Treatment of Pain, M.D. Cancer for pain information

as well as Harvard or any other top hospitals. I am sure Shands in

Florida may even have a site with information on it as well.

I worked at Halifax Hospital in Daytona Beach and had injured my back

when I was 16. It was a horse injury as my horse once fell on my

left side and then rolled right over it, breaking quite a few bones

on the left and was in the hospital for 6 months. Then after that,

about 1 year later this same horse reared up and fell over on top of

me. Having survived all that, then went into nursing which is a

nightmare on your back as any nurse will tell you, especially working

nights.

You are also going to have some periods of depression, as we all have

from time to time, so do not be afraid to ask for help if it gets to

be too much for you. Pain is constant and continual and does wear us

down. We are allowed to get all the help we may need to get us

through. Take each day as it comes, and if that is too overwhelming,

then take each minute, or hour, however best you can handle it. Be

good to yourself and remember you are a very important person dispite

you afflictions.

Anyway sweetie, there is a lot of information out there so ask

questions and do some research when you feel up to it.

I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers.