Re: OT: Health Cost Was: My continuing saga with power supply bypassing

On Apr 29, 5:58 pm, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Joerg wrote:

Mike Monett wrote:

Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yeah, but the grass is not always greener on the other side. I have met
Canadians who have come here to the US to get medical care which they
either couldn't obtain in Canada or were on too long a waiting list. Out
of pocket, they said there was some kind of law up there that they
weren't allowed to take out a US policy for that. I guess that this
boils down to basic care for regular folks but new cancer treatments
only for rich folks.

I guess it depends on the situation. I've hear of it happening, but my Mom
and all her friends have had no problems getting care. They are all pretty
old and have just about every problem you could imagine.

I guess it depends on the individual situation and where you live. Here in
the small town of Midland, I had to wait a month for a CAT scan at the
local hospital. But it wasn't critical, and if it were, I could have gone
to Barrie which is only 45 minutes away.

As far as cancer, I believe about one-third are caused by viruses such as
human papillomavirus, Epstein-Barr, etc. Google shows 44,900,000 hits for
the words _cancer virus_.

But if you kill the virus, you kill the cancer. Silver is one of the very
few substances that has any effect on viruses, and it has shown some very
remarkable effects on some cancers. You might mention this to some of your
doctor friends.

But something needs to happen in the US, and soon. We can't have about
1/5th of the population without any health insurance at all and just
play sitting duck.

Agree. And in many cases, you have to take responsibility for your own
health care.

Right. I don't have much sympathy for people moaning about their aches
and lack of health care while they have let themselves slip into
full-blown obesity. There are a lot of people who don't even know how to
cook a simple meal.

Not all obesity is due to fast food. Some is caused by health issues.
I rarely eat fast food, (A couple times a year) and I reduced my diet
from 3300 calories a day when I was in good health (I weighed 155-175
pounds for years). Now it is less than 1800 calories a day, yet I
continued to gain weight until I weigh 270 pounds. Every time I get a
low level infection, I put on weight. As soon as its gone, I lose the
weight, and usually pretty fast. The first time this happened, I
dropped from 223 pounds to 175 pounds in under a month, while eating
over 3000 calories a day.

The infections tell my body to store fat, and slows down my
metabolism. If I reduce the calories any lower than 1800 per day, I
quickly lose muscle mass. The biggest problem is to find a doctor who
even gives a damn. The last one said, "Well, at least its just low
level. It doesn't show up in your blood work, so you can just live with
it."

The problem is that long term low level infection causes damage to the
heart. I have lost so much strength that I can barely walk through a
few isles at the grocery. My diet was approved by a dietitian, who
suggest that I add a half cup of orange juice for more carbs, but the
rest of the diet i prepared was excellent.

I am in constant pain, but the VA isn't allowed to do what I need to
get well. I don't expect to be alive much longer, if I don't have two
infected teeth removed in the next week or so. I wake up screaming in
pain, and so dizzy I can barely stand up. The center of one of the
infected teeth is black and crumbling. There is nothing to support the
enamel, so i have razor sharp pieces that cut my tongue and lip. That
same doctor told me "I've seen worse"

I had one of the abscesses break a few years ago. I spent 12 hours
sweating the crap out of my blood stream. By the time it was over, I
had to burn the pajamas I was wearing, along bed sheets and pillow. I
had to buy a new mattress and box springs, because I couldn't get the
stench out of it. It took about two weeks to get it out of my skin, as
well. I alternated between being afraid I was going to die, and praying
that I could.

This is my fifth round of badly infected teeth, since 1972. It is
caused by the way the roots curve back into the bone, creating pockets
that allow the infection to form pockets. X-rays show no signs of
damage in the tooth, except at the root, were there is nothing you can
do to prevent the problem.

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prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
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sounds like you may need your teeth removed and fitted with dentures,
a friend of mine had the same type of problems (well can't say if it
is exactly the same problem) and that is what she did, that was a long
time ago, (25 years) so probably there are better solutions now

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