Back in December of 2014 I had successful colon cancer surgery for early stage cancer, but during surgery was introduced to a life threatening super antibiotic resistant e coli bug through the catheter that reared it's ugly head two days after surgery, and so far the entire year of 2015 has been consumed by non stop flair ups, UTI's and strong antibiotics that have caused me seizures, along with kidney infections and kidney stone issues with multiple related surgeries.

 

The cancer was a snap to kick, but the hospital apparently didn't think that I suffered enough and sent me home with a super bug that has been hell trying to shake, with theories that the stones were harboring the bug.

 

Recently after a stone removal and the ureter stent removal I thought that I was finally out of the woods with the bug, but the flair up is disturbingly starting again.

 

I will soon have to be rechecked for the cancer, but presently believe that I am cancer and stone free, but the fun little super bug doesn't seem to want to leave, and I've been warned that it may never as it has possibly colonized in me, and they're running out of antibiotics that they can use on me to at least keep it at bay.

 

The medical world has saved my life, and at the same time has jeopardized it, but I'm presently still here to talk about it with still a puzzling future ahead of me.

 

The antibiotics have weakened me while also saving me with also possible long term damage to my kidney.

 

If not for the care I'd be dead, while the care is also what has caused me my issues, while still keeping me alive in the process, and teetering on continuing to save me or ultimately killing me, or causing me future bigger problems, or hopefully a full recovery. The jury is still out, and so far I haven't been willing to throw in the towel for I still hope to have many years ahead of me to enjoy.

Insulin allowed my son to have an 8th birthday.

Before 1922, type 1 diabetes was a death sentence.

In January 1922, Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old boy dying from diabetes in a Toronto hospital, became the first person to receive an injection of insulin. Within 24 hours, Leonard’s dangerously high blood glucose levels dropped to near-normal levels.

 

 

The news about insulin spread around the world like wildfire. In 1923, Banting and Macleod received the Nobel Prize in Medicine, which they shared with Best and Collip. Thank you, diabetes researchers!

 

 

Soon after, the medical firm Eli Lilly started large-scale production of insulin.

How do you define modern-medicine?

 

Of note I have broken my arm a couple times so my left arm would probably look like a letter of the alphabet. I had a large mole on my chest from childbirth until age 7 when I had it removed. It was thought to be precancerous, but who knows. Other than that I believe I would still be kicking.

Alive - yes.

My concern would be how many kids I would have right now... I had 4 before the snip snip.

Oh, and I'd probably be in horrible gout pain all the time if it weren't for allopurinol.

 

Allopurinol is the best!

Me personally..yes I would still be alive. One of my children was a fetal distress baby. If not for close monitoring of the baby during labor, I have no doubt he would not have made it. He was under stress very suddenly and I had a crash C section. As it was he wasn't breathing when they got him out. Well trained staff resuscitated him very quickly. Still scares me to think about it. Made me feel blessed every day of his life. All grown up now!

Thanks to the newest procedures and equipment for finding breast cancer.

 

MrsC's breast cancer was discovered probably a year earlier than past methods would have done.

 

This made it possible for them to find it before it had any opportunity to spread to her lymph nodes.

 

The lady that found the cancer told MrsC that they had just gotten the new machine 3 weeks prior. Without it, the cancer probably wouldn't have been found until her next year's physical.

Thanks to the newest procedures and equipment for finding breast cancer.

 

MrsC's breast cancer was discovered probably a year earlier than past methods would have done.

 

This made it possible for them to find it before it had any opportunity to spread to her lymph nodes.

 

The lady that found the cancer told MrsC that they had just gotten the new machine 3 weeks prior. Without it, the cancer probably wouldn't have been found until her next year's physical.

 

Good for her! May I ask which center she went to that has the new equipment?

I'll ask her later today. She's in St Louis right now.

 

It was in Lex.

Absolutely. January 2014 found ol' pap with a blood sugar of 800, diabetic ketoacidosis, an esophageal ulcer and a DVT. Among other things.

 

Still walking and talking, chipping and putting.

I'd be a goner. 27 years ago my heart was so badly out of sync that the bottom chamber was trying to overtake the top. I ended up spending a week in coronary ICU. Modern medicine and God's will certainly helped keep me alive.

Good for her! May I ask which center she went to that has the new equipment?

 

Baptist Internal Medicine & Endocrinology at Beaumont

 

3084 Lakecrest Cir #100

Lexington

Good for her! May I ask which center she went to that has the new equipment?

 

Don't know why I didn't think to put the name of the process earlier.

 

It's called 3D Mammography.

 

http://www.dailysunnews.com/news/2015/oct/27/3d-mammography-cited-most-effective-detecting-brea/

Not sure, I have never had anything serious yet (knock on wood). With my smoking (quit 5 months ago) and eating habits and no cholesterol meds for the last 20 years, I could have had a heart attack, I guess.