Karen-

Thank you so much for saying a pray, I appreciate it.



Laura-

Thank you for taking the time to write to me. I hope the next one will be better, I recently had to travel out of this area to get diagnosed with endometriosis (a surgeon here in my area did a laparoscopic in 1998 and they gyno took pictures which I never saw till recently and when I went to see a doctor in Hershey he came in and told me that I have endometriosis and it’s right here in this picture) and I was so mad I can’t even tell u how upset I was at that point because the surgeon who did my surgery never believed me).

The surgeon I saw yesterday wanted me to reschedule in 6 weeks and I just told the appt. secretaries that I will have to call in to schedule.



K9Karen-

I wish I could travel to Philly, but it’s about 3 ½ hours away and that would probably mean taking a full day off of work, which at the moment I can’t do.
Your ortho sounds like a great person. If I can’t find anyone that I feel is good enough I will have to contact you to get his name and number.



Donna-

Sciatica pain is excruciating, mine has gone away for now which is really great but this tailbone issue is the worst. I was tempted to leave but I was looking for someone to listen to me and understand how bad my pain has been this past month. Luckily, I did get a copy of the x-rays they took and I may get a copy of the other papers but I know they will charge me for them of course.

I would have run out on that doctor as well. I can’t believe that. My co-worker had a similar issue with one of her kid’s doctors. I understand doctors can get very busy and emergency’s pop up but coming in the room and acting like my pain is all gone is just insane.

Thanks for writing!



Pomtzu-

Thank you so much for writing to me. As you see what I wrote to Laura, I had to go to Hershey Medical Center in order to find someone who will listen to me and he treated me like a person and I was really glad I made that trip.

I’m so glad you were able to find help. I don’t know what it is about local doctors at all; I may try at least one other doctor around here maybe before going to Hershey or someplace else.

I wish I wasn’t so far from Baltimore but I may end up considering it if nothing semi-locally comes up.

I don’t think the chiropractor helped my condition really and I’m not going back to him. I’m looking at some spine doctors and trying to find one locally if possible if not I’ll look at Hershey.

Thanks you for taking the time to write to me.



Daisy and Delilah-

I’m so sorry for all the troubles you’ve had with doctors as well. You couldn’t have said this any better “God forbid they should ask the patient how they really feel”.

I had one person from a yahoo group tell me that whoever suggested keeping a track of your pain is clueless and I was just like are you kidding me, well that was me because I kept a track of my pain with the cramps I was getting with the endometriosis so I could inform the doctors that I was having pain almost every day otherwise I might of said that it wasn’t around too much or something like that.

Thanks for writing to me. I will say some prays for you.


Melissa