Yep, in a heartbeat, the mom and boy - sm
Posted By: Laura E. on 2009-05-24
In Reply to: would you turn this other mom/son in? - Spinoff
are being exceptionally stuppidd. The boy will die without the treatment, yes it is nasty and basically you are getting poison injected into your body but it works (more than it fails). When my 5-y/o daughter was diagnosed with cancer in 2005 chemo was a no-brainer. Without it after surgery to remove her kidney and tumor, her chance of survival was 20%, with chemo 90-98% after 5 years. In August she will have been cancer-free for 4 years. She still goes thru several tests on her checkups, and I also have retinal scans done on her as the eye doctor found a spot on the back of her retina (that is the only thing I am unhappy about as they missed this as her last onc checkup, the eye doctor happend to see it), so far that is all it is, a flat spot, so they think it is just a freckle but are watching it closely to make sure. The oncology is not overly concerned but I am still having it watched. I am sure they think I am a nut case, overly concerned mom, but I'd rather be a overly anxious pain in the butt to them than have a dead child.
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Questions: What do we do? I told him that in my humble opinion he should wait until it is doing it again and go to an urgent care center, er, whatever, and tell them it is doing it, please gimme an EKG. All the reg doc is going to do is that, and then order a bunch of tests, tell him it is stress because it takes more than five minutes to diagnose and send him home, regardless of what it is. At least at the urgent care center he can get someone to do a little bit more in depth look at it.
Like I said earlier, I left messages with his reg doc and with my cardiologist, but the latter said it would probably be Wednesday before they get back to me, and I am concerned about this abnormal beating. Anyone with any advice?
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