October 07, 2005
Scleroderma, healthcare and the me generation!
I just heard from one of my online Sclero friends who said she had dinner last night with 2 of her friends who are both negotiating the healthcare "nightmare" - for different reasons. This got me to thinking. Funny, most of the friends I have who go thru the healthcare "nightmare" are the smart ones. The ones who just do what they're told and, honestly, I don't think they worry about living or dieing, just go for their annual physicals and take the drugs they're handed. Have the hysterectomies. One of my best friends moved to Montana and so we've pretty much given up regular contact and she had melanoma about 5 years ago. They look a BIG piece out of her flesh along with the mole, gave her some tests and sent her on her way. So for the last 5 years, everytime a gland swells she thinks it's metastasized and she's ready to jump off a building. Being physically ill has wrecked her mentally, she's a "smart" girl, too. My other "best" friend has breast cancer and had everything possible removed to keep it from coming back and now it is in her spine and inoperable. She goes to Dana Farber Hospital in Boston and gets very good care and I swear she's not worried about it. She just does what they tell her. Hey, if this keeps up the average life expectancy for American women will be back down to 40! What the heck happened to our generation? Atomic testing? a bad vaccine? processed food? flouride? Saturday morning TV? microwaves? Heavy metal music? just living thru the '80's? AIDS started with our generation so you have to wonder. Have you heard the recent links between breast cancer and just having electricity? I don't know kiddies, where is it all leading?
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Todays lesson: We're all screwed.
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