Posted by: Dotsie
another friend's mom has cancer - 08/27/03 06:16 PM
I have another friend who is now doing the balancing act to a much greater degree. ![[Frown]](images/icons/frown.gif)
Her mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and given only a month without treatments to live. She has chosen the treatments and a litle longer life as long as the treatments don't make her too sick.
This is a tremendous reminder of my mom's misdiagnosis 3 years ago. She had been trucking her mom from doctor to doctor for dizziness and they couldn't find anything because they were looking at her brain. She was dizzy because of the tumor in her lung was huge and not allowing enough oxygen to the brain!![[Mad]](images/icons/mad.gif)
She was diagnosed at the local emergency care facility when my friend gave up and decided to go another route. All they did was a chest xray and there you have it!
My mom had also been under doctors care for a form of arthritis...so the doctor thought. He listened to her explain her pain, never did any tests, and assumed it was arthritis. He kept prescribing those prescription drugs for the pain. Blamed increase in pain to humid weather in the summer, blah, blah, blah. Other patients were complaining too.
Next thing you know Mom fell at home and Dad took her to the ER. She hurt her ankle and her chest. Went home, still in pain and told Dad that if at the end of the week the pain in her chest wasn't any better, would he please take her back for an xray.
Sure enough he did. The xray showed broken ribs possibly from the fall , but most probably from the cancer in her lung that showed on the xray, that had eaten away the bone by that point!
So there you have it, 2 misdiagnosed women who knew something was wrong, but couldn't get to the bottom of it until it was too late.
Anyway, please pray for my friend as she balances children, spouse, job, and mom!![[Wink]](images/icons/wink.gif)
Her mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and given only a month without treatments to live. She has chosen the treatments and a litle longer life as long as the treatments don't make her too sick.
This is a tremendous reminder of my mom's misdiagnosis 3 years ago. She had been trucking her mom from doctor to doctor for dizziness and they couldn't find anything because they were looking at her brain. She was dizzy because of the tumor in her lung was huge and not allowing enough oxygen to the brain!
She was diagnosed at the local emergency care facility when my friend gave up and decided to go another route. All they did was a chest xray and there you have it!
My mom had also been under doctors care for a form of arthritis...so the doctor thought. He listened to her explain her pain, never did any tests, and assumed it was arthritis. He kept prescribing those prescription drugs for the pain. Blamed increase in pain to humid weather in the summer, blah, blah, blah. Other patients were complaining too.
Next thing you know Mom fell at home and Dad took her to the ER. She hurt her ankle and her chest. Went home, still in pain and told Dad that if at the end of the week the pain in her chest wasn't any better, would he please take her back for an xray.
Sure enough he did. The xray showed broken ribs possibly from the fall , but most probably from the cancer in her lung that showed on the xray, that had eaten away the bone by that point!
So there you have it, 2 misdiagnosed women who knew something was wrong, but couldn't get to the bottom of it until it was too late.
Anyway, please pray for my friend as she balances children, spouse, job, and mom!