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So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?
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Re: So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?
#12Possible to get a compressed/TLDR version?
Shooter was probably bitten by a tick that carried a ton of diseases. Most doctors didn't believe that any one person could have so many symptoms, and treated Shooter's individual symptoms instead of trying too hard to figure out what was wrong with him. Finally one doctor figured it out. Shooter is slowly getting better.
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#13I am assuming you are an American citizen. If you haven't already, you need to:
1) call your Congressperson's local office (not DC) and ask for someone in constituent services who works with health care issues. Do this tomorrow. If your insurance company is denying you any care, and you have a paper trail, they should help. If your Rep can't help, then contact your two Senators' offices. Generally, Reps are much better with this sort of constituent service.
2) call your local Fox affiliate and tell them your story. (November sweeps are coming up, and this is a perfect post-House nighttime news story).
3) put up a web page that has your story, pictures, and easily found contact information for the follow up press stories that will occur.
This is your best path to making sure you don't get denied coverage from your insurance company (and it's amazing they haven't found a way to drop you yet) for the benefits that you are entitled to.
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#15Best wishes for a complete recovery. A comment: even good physicians often don't have a good handle on nutritional approaches to wellness, things like vitamin D/sunshine and vitamin C and the immune system, for example, and avoiding anti-nutrients. If this is the case with your health professionals, it might be an area worth researching.
Re: So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?
#16You are extremely brave. Not a lot of us would go through crap seeing so many doctors and hospitals without going nuts. I hope you recover completely soon. Thank you for sharing - somedays I think my life is tough, but these are reminders that I'm way off the mark.
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#17Possible to get a compressed/TLDR version?
Guy had a lot of symptoms, no doctors really knew what he had. Eventually he found a doctor who said "You have a lot of diseases, but they are treatable." Guy now is improving, but still has serious, permanent health problems due to his awful ordeal. TL;DR: Read the poor guy's story and show some sympathy! :)
I think TL;DR could well be a good epitaph for democracy in the United States!
Re: So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?
#18Dude, that well and truly sucks. I work around hospitals some and every once in a while I get the odd feeling after watching a specialist scratch his head over a fuzzy black and white "slice" made by in imager with a magnet the size of a garbage truck that its all still so primitive . Medicine has a long way yet to go.
Yeah MRI machine are definitively cavemen technology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging#Phys...) you should help
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#19This is terrible. Is there any question left as to whether private healthcare is a disaster? I have known a few people who have been denied healthcare coverage when it is quite clear that it is due. Either there needs to be a regulatory board that can overrule insurance companies or we need to implement public healthcare.
Re: So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?
#20Dude, that well and truly sucks. I work around hospitals some and every once in a while I get the odd feeling after watching a specialist scratch his head over a fuzzy black and white "slice" made by in imager with a magnet the size of a garbage truck that its all still so primitive . Medicine has a long way yet to go.
Yeah MRI machine are definitively cavemen technology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging#Phys... ) you should help
Well, yeah, I know, magnetic resonance is a mighty cool hack. I was just hoping that it could be maybe, you know, a bit smaller. Not costing as much as a first class ticket from NY to Tokyo for a trip through one might be a nice touch as well.
Hell, lets just go all sci-fi and get right to the part where there's an iphone app for waving over a person and seeing their insides in full color in real time...