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WARNING: TOTH TRANSCRIPTION

Posted By: MT Advocate on 2008-11-18
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Hello!  It's been a while since I have been on this board.  I'm still receiving e-mails from MTs telling me that they have been taken advantage of by Toth Transcription.  From what I understand, Toth is now advertising on www.craigslist.com for new MTs to apply with them. 


Every time I receive an e-mail from another MT, she tells me how she has not been receiving her paychecks, and how after many attempts at contacting the Toths, she has not received any replies to her e-mails or return phone calls. 


It's no less than criminal what they are doing to people, and the more people that come forward with their experiences, the better our chances are at putting them out of business. 


I can't stress enough how underhanded and manipulative their hiring process is, and how abusive they are to their MTs. 


If you don't want to see them get away with this anymore, you have to act on this, and warn anybody and everybody about TOTH TRANSCRIPTION in Wexford, PA.


They prey on newbies fresh out of school, and out-of-state applicants, because they know that as long as you are out of state, you have no recourse to go after them to get your money.


******  I am in touch with other MTs who have been put through the wringer by Toth, and they are fighting back tooth and nail.  Don't feel hopeless and helpless, that is what they are counting on.  Stand up for yourself and get fighting mad.


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Toth Transcription

I have to admit that not often do I completely discount everything that I read, but this time I had a difficult time believing that a company who wants to stay in business would actually refuse to pay people.  So I have to admit that - yes - I did send in a resume.  I have been working in the MT field for over 30 years so I felt fairly safe in knowing what I was talking about.  First I got an email saying to call this guy and then when I did, he said he didn't send it, his wife did.  Great communication between the two.  Then, he proceeds to start putting down and degrading everyone from MTs to QAs to hospitals (he only does clinics) and was as rude and ignorant as anyone I have ever seen and I have seen a few.


Then, as if this wasn't bad enough so far, he actually does only offer 5 cents a line!  I told him that I felt that was an insult and that anyone with as many years experience as I have or even anyone working as an IC who has to pay their own way in everything, would never work for that kind of ridiculous pay, and then said goodbye.  Believe it or not - this jerk called me back and left the nastiest voicemail!!!  This guy shouldn't be allowed to own a dog let alone a company. 


If he has not paid you and you are due money for your work, call the Better Business Bureau, the Labor Bureau and if you are in the same state, I would contact the police and file a report for theft of services.  If they say it is a civil matter, then head to court and sue him for every penny he owes you - with interest!  People like him give service owners a horrible name.  Good luck to all who work there, have worked there and if you are thinking of working there - run away!


Toth Transcription?
Hey, Just started working for Toth Transcription because I just finished MT school. I decided to look them up and all I have seen are bad things on here. It has me worried now....I don't know what I should do, I really need the experience to get in with any other good compaines...any advice?
TOTH TRANSCRIPTION
MUST READ: STAY AWAY FROM TOTH. In brief, whether you give them 2 weeks notice, or 1 day's notice, you will not be paid. (Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong on that point.) They realize you need the work, but they are not worried about YOU. They bring in the cash, and don’t give you a second thought. They hire newbies and any unsuspecting MT that is desperate for a job, or just out of school. They reel you in, give you work, collect the money, and live their lives. You won't be paid.

This is the sad truth about these 2 ($%&@. Take if from somebody who knows them personally and who worked for them years ago. I never kept my mouth shut, which is why I did get paid. Other MTs at that time told me their paychecks bounced, or “They were in the mail or got lost in the mail”. Sound familiar???

This is the wife's business, but the husband ran it into the ground. He is rude, condescending, threatening in his manner and tone, and does not know the first thing about running a legitimate business. He was years ago and is to this day one of the nastiest, but dumbest men I have ever met in my entire life. He couldn’t hold down a real job, so he took advantage of his wife’s situation, and took over.

Trust me. Tell anybody you know "DO NOT WORK FOR THESE PEOPLE".

Next, MTStars.com was highjacked. Do not go to this site to look for work, unless you check out the companies on there thoroughly before applying. Some of the companies posting on there are probably not even aware of what happened to the site.

Recommended sites: MTStars.net; again, that’s (.net) NOT .com. Also, MTDaily.com is a good one.

How to stop Toth and shut them down: First, start with law suits. Toth knows that nobody will sue them because your legal fees will more than likely exceed what Toth owes you. If you can find the means to do it, SUE THEM. If enough MTs that have fallen prey to Toth's unscrupulous business practices can come together on this, quite possibly they can be shut down.

There are honest, legitimate companies that will hire hardworking MTs. I know from experience.

I feel so bad for anybody that has worked for these people and not gotten paid. I will try to check posts as much as possible, but if you don't get a response from me, you may e-mail me at kahluasfight@yahoo.com.

Good luck, everybody!

Was it Toth Transcription?
Good luck if it was Toth. I've been waiting for my money for four long years now!
Toth Transcription
I too, although I'm ashamed to admit it, was a victim of Toth Transcription. I worked for that company(husband/wife team) a few years back and was taken for $4,600 and some change. How that much??? It’s the way he pays (or doesn’t pay I should say). You submit a bill for the previous month’s work so if you quit he ends up owing you 2 months of work which is what happened in my situation. In brief, he sent me a check for my work…..I quit (for various reasons but from all other posts you pretty much get the picture of why)…he stopped payment on the check (sent me an email stating "good luck getting your money") and never paid me the last check that was owed to me. I did take him to court (in my town), got the judgment against him and was in the process of freezing his bank account when he decides to file bankruptcy. That was in 2005. Still haven’t seen a penny and the bankruptcy is still active. I’m now very happily working for a local hospital and GETTING PAID!!! All I can say is please stay away from this company unless you want to work for free. They have done this to soooooo many people and they keep getting away with it. PLEASE TRUST ME!!!
Toth Transcription
Has anyone ever notified the doctors that Toth transcribes for, to let them know that Toth Transcription is an unscrupulous company - gets paid by the doctors and never pays their transcriptionists?  I wonder if the physicians know what kind of company they are dealing with.  I have telephone numbers and email addresses, and I have half a mind to let them know all about the service that Toth provides.   
Toth Transcription = SCAM! Please read
Please contact me via email if you have had an issue with Toth Transcription, either nonpayment or otherwise.  I am compiling a list to see if we can stop this from happening to anyone else.  Thank you. 
Scam artists, Toth Transcription
STAY AWAY FROM TOTH TRANSCRIPTION. They are scammers. I speak from experience from 8 years ago. I can't believe they are in business again. The husband is a control freak and a crook. He knows nothing about running a legitamate business. He can't hold down a regular job, so he thinks he can run his wife's business.

REPEAT, STAY AWAY FROM TOTH.
But I appreciate the warning and hopefully no one else will get taken.
 
Thanks for the warning!!!
That was the kind of feedback I was looking for. If I don't ask, I know I won't find out. You have helped me. Thank you.
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Thanks for the warning - sm
I too have sat by and watch other MLSs at my current company sabotage others doing the same thing.

This is why I like working at home. No office politics and I can choose to ignore the hen pecking and prattle by coworkers.
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Warning!
This is a great idea. Maybe you can warn the people aspiring to be MTs not to go in it for the money. I enjoy transcribing and love staying at home, but no way could I ever make a decent living doing this only. I have had to take on two jobs working 16 hours a day to make what I made when I first started out. Its sad.
Thank you for the warning.........

The sad thing is, for you who are Christians, is that these companies do not realize or care that they will answer to Jesus the King of all for their sins (it remains to be seen if it will be in this life or in the life to come).  Its a tripp, MTSO want an honest, hardworking MT, but use every trickery in the book...............


TOTH

They did the same to me.  I quit without notice after not being paid for three months!  I was then told I wasn't going to be paid because I didn't give them notice.  Yeah right . .. bust my buttock for two more weeks wihtout seeing any money for that either.  I have filed several complaints with officials.  We need to keep doing this to shut them down once and for all.  I cannot believe this still goes on!  Unreal!  


I live in the same state as Toth.  I have spoken to attorneys.  We need to keep flooding officials with our complaints!  They owe me over $1,000.00 for almost 4 years now!  Think how much money that is with interest piling up daily.  I sure could use my money. 


Toth....
On their web site, they say they will beat any competitor's price....I guess that's because they can afford to if they never pay their transcriptionists.
Toth
Is there any way possible to get money out of these people?  Who could we report them to?  They MUST be shut down!!!
Toth
It's such a shame that this is happening. Did you contact a lawyer?
toth
I too have been scammed by Toth, they owe me alot of money, I would really like a bunch of us to go together and get our money,  It is so hard to get a job in this field and it really stinks that this company does this to us.
Toth
Hello! Thank you for your support. My hope is that every MT that was ever wronged by these people contacts me and isn't afraid to push for justice.

Yes, it would certainly be nice for him to have to do jail time.
Toth
Good for you!! Someone should have put them out of business long ago!! If anything, I think there should be MORE posts to warn people about this scam!! I don't understand why anyone would object to that. As an old timer who got sucked into his game when the husband took over the business, I totally support your efforts!
Toth

As long as more MTs that have been affected are getting back to me because they have not seen the previous posts, I'm not giving it a rest.  Not everybody has seen all of the posts, and as of this weekend, I'm still getting more new responses. 


 


Toth
Thanks so much for your support. My point as well, if you don't want to read it, then don't. You would be surprised at the number of MTs that come across my postings on a weekly basis, that had no idea that there is something we are trying to accomplish here.
Toth
Thanks so much for your support. I was one of the lucky ones who got out in time, as he took over the business.

I got great satisfaction when I had heard they lost their biggest account to another service.
Don't go to Toth
Please do not work for Toth transcription. They are a scam. You will work for them for 2-4 month's and then finally realize that they are not going to pay you for any of the work that you have done, So please stay away from them. You can check this site for more information on this husband and wife scam team.
TOTH - no way!!!
I worked for them as did many of my friends.  Never got paid and they are nasty to boot.  Not sure how they can still be in business but they are a nightmare.  A number of folks have tried to take legal steps towards them but they are a slippery group of people. 
Toth
If you have to ask what Toth is, then you are among those of us blessed to never have worked for them. Look in the archives for the many complaints.
Toth
I don't know if anyone has thought of this, but if Toth is not paying, the MT can file suit not only against Toth but also against the clinic or office that they did the transcription for. If a few MTs would do this, maybe they would be put out of business because word gets around those clinics when something like this happens.
WARNING to those trying to PREVENT it.....
A few years ago my daughter's 2nd grade class kept having a lice problem. My daughter never showed any signs of it BUT one day she came home and told me her 2 best friends, who she played with and sat by, were sent home with it. So I panicked and did the stuff in her hair just to get anything that (in my mind) was probably there.

Well, my daughter had a neurologic reaction to the RID or whatever I used. Her one arm was shaking, it was scary. I took her to the ED and the doc made me feel about 1 inch tall. He said "WHY WOULD YOU PUT IT ON HER IF SHE DIDN'T HAVE LICE???"

I explained but he said people just don't get it, this stuff is basically a PESTICIDE.

So if your child has it then use it, but PLEASE don't just use it to keep him/her "clean" as a measure to prevent it. Take it from a ~guilt-ridden~ mother.

I saw a warning on another one of your posts (SM)
and I think it is because your initials have MQ in them and they are going through and deleting anything related to that company that is posted here, even though you say nothing about the company. I don't think that is right, because you are answering other things and not bringing your company name into this.
That wuz a creeper warning, lol. nm
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Book as a Warning...
I would like the book to be as realistic as possible because people looking into it are going to be making an investment in time and money.  That's why when some people suggested I do a "how-to" to get into this business, I really wasn't sure because I didn't want people to think it was easy money like some ads have you believe.  I wouldn't go so far as a warning... just being realistic about what you can achieve.  I want MT input, which is great, because this way it won't be lopsided with my experiences only.  Thanks!
Chantix Warning
as it must be just horrible to stop!

 

I received this today regarding Chantix......


FDA informed healthcare professionals and consumers of important revisions to the WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS sections of the prescribing information for Chantix regarding serious neuropsychiatric symptoms experienced in patients taking Chantix. These symptoms include changes in behavior, agitation, depressed mood, suicidal ideation, and attempted and completed suicide. While some patients may have experienced these types of symptoms and events as a result of nicotine withdrawal, some patients taking Chantix who experienced serious neuropsychiatric symptoms and events had not yet discontinued smoking. In most cases, neuropsychiatric symptoms developed during Chantix treatment, but in others, symptoms developed following withdrawal of Chantix therapy. See the FDA Information for Healthcare Professionals Sheet for recommendations and considerations for healthcare professionals on using Chantix therapy for patients. 


Read the complete 2008 MedWatch Safety Summary including a link to the FDA Public Health Advisory, Healthcare Professional Information Sheet and the prescribing information for Chantix regarding this issue at:
http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2008/safety08.htm#Varenicline

Former CT warning symptoms SM
are totally completely gone with editing.

Maybe someone else will have a more specific answer for the keystrokes, but CONSIDERABLY fewer per minute. As the VR system gets better and better with a dictator, you may spend most of the time just sitting there reading along with squeakily speeded up dictation. Other dictators will have corrections on every line, though.

Part of reduced Keystrokes is expander, too. For instance, I do ".t" when I come on a lowercase "the" between what should be two sentences, which backs up, inserts a period, double spaces, deletes the small t and inserts a capital T, then jumps to the beginning of the next word for me.

When I started editing, though, my Expander wasn't nearly so well developed and I still made more money AND my worrisome carpal tunnel pains, which a number of times required me to take nonpaid leave while I rested my wrists, disappeared. So have the wrist braces I wore religiously every night to bed.
Low pay warning!!!! Take it to Job board!

Info on Toth

Has anyone heard of Toth Transcription? Pay, personalities, etc?


 


sounds like Toth
transcription...husband and wife team. I almost got sucked into working for them but got tipped off about the no pay problems. If it is Toth, you may never get your money unless you take legal action.
Maybe, but if it's Toth the contract
they have has so many loopholes in it, they probably have their behinds covered. I suspect they pounce on new graduates who are so ready to be hired that they sign the contract without reading all of it. They rush you to sign everything and fax it to them so they can supply you with an account immediately upon receipt of the contract. I also suspect that they use so called "assessment tests" as actual work for real clients. I had 8 transcripts to complete on the pretense of assessment tests. They took me about 6 hours to complete, mind you, I was fresh out of school and I checked over each one with a fine tooth comb before submitting them. I think this is the way they operate, from one new graduate to the next without having to pay for the work. I'm so glad I didn't sign the contract.
Another Toth Sucker

After reading about Toth in the archives, I needed to put in my two cents worth.  I have worked for them for the past six months and every month I had to ask and beg for my check.  Well, this time it is a month late, and I was told (every time) that it was lost in the mail.  Last night I told them that I wouldn't work for them anymore until I saw the check.  The reply back to me was very nasty and rude and basically told me to quit my whining and the only way I would get money would be if I turned in my two week's notice.  If not, the money owed me would be cancelled.


 


My advice to anyone:   DO NOT WORK FOR TOTH TRANSCRIPTION!!!!!


ANYONE WHO HAS WORKED FOR TOTH
I am trying to compile an email list of anyone that has had nonpayment issues, or otherwise with Toth Transcription.  I will speak with you more over email if you'd like, but please email me so I know how many people this has happened to.  I plan on doing whatever it takes to get this to stop.  Thank you.
Toth part 2
So believe it or not - now this lunatic is sending insulting emails complete with 2-year-old name calling. Did anyone ever tell him that harassment is against the law because if not, someone should let him know that his thievery certainly is. I guess anyone call themselves a "business owner".
No, it wasnt Toth.
Thanks! Have a good day!
Ditto on Toth.
Did you go to one of the top 2 schools? If so, have you tried the companies they suggested? If you did not go to one of those 2 schools, you might try local hospitals and doc offices. Go door to door, sell yourself. Good luck to you!
I am lost ... what is Toth please

xx


Warning about MTSO in Scottsdale, AZ sm

There is a lady by the name of Cynde Burchell who owes friends of mine over 400.00 for work that was done.  she is not answering her phone, she is off of the IM and she pretty much is MIA right now.  She lost a huge account and she would rob Peter to pay Paul with all of her MTs, I know, she did it to me twice and I should have quit the first time.  My friends did some work for her.  It is almost 2 months now, and no pay for them.  They have been contacting her, phoning her, emailing her.....they are getting nothing.   If any of you MTs see an ad posted by a Jeanette...she is posting for Cynde Burchell.  DO NOT GO THERE!!! She owes one MT over 600.00 from about almost 6 months ago.   I don't usually state names, but this is ridiculous.  She stiffed so many people, I don't care anymore.  So, I am warning people on various boards about this one. 


warning - this may be disturbing and offensive to some...and then, maybe not...
There has to be some way to convey to you what is on this video.  My hope is someone else will also step up and try to answer your questions, as I get very sick to my stomach even thinking of it. 

I also do not want to offend anyone who maybe would not want to be subjected to this, you know, who might open the post not really knowing what is in it and then read it. 

With a video, you open it, or not, at your own will. 

Imagine the chickens you see either on TV or if you ever were around a farm.  They are outside running around, spreading their wings...doing things that chickens do instinctly, or naturally. 

Now imagine from the time they are born, they are never allowed outside, ever; but are in fact placed in coops the size of maybe the top of your desk, with 9 other chickens.  There is no room to spread their wings.  They never once spread their wings from birth to death, yet having that desire because it is a natural function and part of their ability to clean themselves, to mate, etc. 

Now imagine their beaks being clipped off (the area with most of the nerve endings) with some kind of hot iron type machine, so they can not peck each other to death, like they will from the stress of being in tight quarters. 

Now imagine 'chicken' fights, as they are so cramped and upset, fights until death, and the dead chicken just rots beside the others.  Maybe the chickens are so hungry from lack of food and water, they even eat it because they have water and food routinely withheld so that they will produce more eggs.  Imagine that life for years, never getting out of that coop. 

Now imagine after being given growth hormones, their bodies become so big their legs will not support them, so they fall over and starve to death, again, in the coop with the other chickens. 

Imagine as they are never able to wash or groom themselves.  Imagine being electrically shocked in the metal cages to stimulate the egg-laying...

Now imagine they do not produce eggs so they are now ready to be slaughtered for their meat.  They are literally grabbed and thrown violently into the backs of trucks, with broken bones and wings, injured, in trucks extremely hot, for who knows how many hours until they get to the slaughterhouse. 

Now imagine being placed on what looks like a conveyor type apparatus, hung by their necks and being wisked by some type of blade that slits open the neck. 

I could not watch certain parts and had my eyes closed, but I will never forget the sounds of this kind of treatment/death as long as I live...

These places are not clean, the chickens are not clean. 

It is easy to see where the avian flu comes from - we (meaning mankind) have created it by the filth we allow these chickens to live in. 

I can not even write about the cows, pigs, turkeys.  Is beyond belief how they many times do not even anesthetize the cows before castrating them. 

Dairy cows may not be treated so bad while they are producing milk, but a Huge percent of our meat comes from dairy cows who no longer produce milk.  Their life may be pretty decent for a while, but it is what happens to them afterward...

I can not even go on...it is a nightmare.


Yep, i got the same warning email one time. nm
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In her defense, there are far too many men out there that really should come with warning labels. nm
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A breast cancer warning sm
Let me tell you a true story. I am hesitant to tell it because I want every woman to have a mammogram and to be tested as often as possible. In 2000 a surgeon I had trusted for 30 years read my path report of a biopsy he did for a suspicious small lump. The pathology report came back as "atypical ductal carcinoma insitu which some may call atypical hyperplasia." This surgeon literally yelled in my face "You have breast cancer and that breast has to come off." Due to the fact that friends of mine had suffered lymphoma and other complications from mastectomy, I asked him again if mastectomy was the only answer. He was extremely stern with me and said it was, and my only other alternative would be lumpectomy with radiation and he would not guarantee it. Due to other problems of health issues in the family (serious) I wondered about my ability to type or transcribe again. I even asked him to keep it from my husband until I decided what to do and he called my husband in his office (my husband was very ill at the time).  I called my health care provider and asked about a second opinion, they said get as many as I was comfortable with. I was referred to the head of oncology at another facility (IMPORTANT) and he referred me to a breast surgeon. I told her that I had read Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book and I read about surgeons leaving "dirty margins" from the first biopsy and questioned if lumpectomy would be just as good as mastectomy. I told the second surgeon (a breast surgeon) I had heard of  a physician from "Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book"who practiced at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. The new breast surgeon did the second operation which was removal of the rest of the "dirty margins" and my slides were sent to Vanderbilt. Their opinion was that no further treatment would be necessary. The breast surgeon called a tumor board meeting and it was their opinion that they were not sure if I did indeed have "breast cancer." The radiologist who was at that tumor board meeting said she would not radiate me since they were not sure it was cancer, as if I did get cancer back in that breast, she could not radiate me again. By the way, the first surgeon whom I had trusted for 30 years told me to "to go ahead and listen to your neighbor and your hairdresser and you'll be back here with more cancer and it will be too late for you then because we don't know what's in the rest of that breast!" He also was very angry that the other doctors told me I had every right to have a plastic surgeon present at operation to install Expanders should I decide to have a mastectomy and want plastic surgery down the road. He was very upset with that and upset at the fact that I would have had my own plastic surgeon of my choice. He wanted that mastectomy done "last week" were his very words. Well, it's 2006, I have had 6 month mammos on that breast and yearly mammos on both breasts since 2000. I did have a needle aspiration for the tiniest lump in that breast which was benign, then I had a stereotactic biopsy on that breast because I was watched closely for 5 years, that biopsy was insufficient for diagnosis, so I underwent another surgical biopsy in 1/05 which turned out to be "atypia." So, whether I am a fool for not having the mastectomy, I can't really say, but I can say that I did question, read, study, make my own decisions. I did not have a mastectomy in 2000, I still have that same breast (a bit smaller, but who cares?) and I still have negative mammos every 6 mos. except for the two ? findings later on. I refused tamoxifen for my own personal reasons, although it is the treatment of choice. I am very, very reluctant to tell this story for fear of just one woman letting a cancer go undetected. On the other hand, I am telling it here (now for the first time) because I want women to know they have a right to make a decision with regard to their own bodies and ask intelligent questions. You have every right. Just be sure you get many high-level opinions. By the way, I did get put on a lot of prayer lists as well. I do believe God helps those who help themselves. I will never be sorry for the chances I took and the choices I made. I hope that trusted old surgeon is NOT right (my new breast surgeon says he is from the "days of yore"}. The important thing is to get tested, get more than one opinion and please, please, if you believe, pray, and talk, talk, talk, and read, read, read. Learn when to say "yes" and learn when to say "no". I hope I didn't scare anyone, but there is hope and help out there for those who are willing to use their intelligence. For any of you who think I did it for cosmetic reasons -- absolutely not! I would not have even wanted expanders for further plastic surgery. I am a grandmother, not interested in body beautiful.  I was the sole source of income due to an unfortunate circumstance with my husband and we would both have been "down" at the same time. I did it because I had to at least ask what my options were. So far, so good. Please pray that I did the right thing and please know that you too have "options" to consider. Please be sure to go to a "different" facility for a "different" opinion, not the same as the one who diagnosed you. I sure hope this helps someone some day, but please, please if the second opinion says the breast must be removed, then you will absolutely have to listen and you will do fine. My new breast surgeon said if it were ever necessary, she could remove both breasts, freeze and save the nipples and do a reconstruction for her patients if they desired it down the road. There are tons of new options for us out there. But ASK!. My message to you is GET CHECKED, and make those checkups regular, there are clinics that will take you for free. I hope if they do find something, you have as good a result as I did. Please go, and please ask questions and get other opinions. Good luck and God bless. Hope I helped someone today but I really, really do not want anyone to miss anything that could kill them, so be aware that this is only my story, but it's true and it may give someone else with atypical ductal carcinoma in-situ some help, hope and understanding.A mastectomy is not a bad thing, not in today's world, but I want you to know that there are tons of options for you and I hope you take advantage of the best ones for you, God forbid, you every need that kind of help. You may E-mail me but I won't "practice medicine without a license," I just want to share my experience and strength with you and urge you to get tested soon!