My mother was so obviously sick. She'd lost enough weight to be lighter than me and my sister, which is just NOT ON. She'd been scanned from head to toe, and he'd looked at images of her colon, but just not interpreted the mass. In fact, he didn't until a new doctor pointed it out. At which point she was pretty much being rushed into surgery. Oh, he was apologetic, but what the fuck?
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
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§ ita § - Mar 10, 2012 9:36:25 am PST #9441 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sean K - Mar 10, 2012 9:38:24 am PST #9442 of 30001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Aw. Moebius has died.
sumi - Mar 10, 2012 9:42:47 am PST #9443 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Well, it seem as though I'll be here a second night and when a nurse came in to give me meds I got a new one to handle acid. So, that must be part of my new regimen.
I'm feeling really lucky right now.
(BTW, JZ - I loved the Clydesdales - that was perfect.)
Win: I kind of figured out the keyboard so I am computing on the flatscreen tv.
Laura - Mar 10, 2012 9:42:55 am PST #9444 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
That is really inexcusable. She did the right thing, saw the doctor, had tests done. If he didn't see a problem he should have asked for another consult right away.
Do you and your family have confidence in your mother's current medical team?
Laura - Mar 10, 2012 9:45:12 am PST #9445 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Yay for hospital computing! I'm glad you are being well cared for, sumi.
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2012 10:04:49 am PST #9446 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do you and your family have confidence in your mother's current medical team?
Yes. They kinda brought in every big gun, sometimes for free, when they realised what happened, as a sort of communal apology. It was remarkable to see the medical community rally around her. She can pretty much get anyone in Jamaica to see her, and we've discovered every oncologist and gastroenterologist on both sides of the family too, and they're on call as well. And psychiatrist, and acupuncturist, and nutritionist, and...and...and...
She's that sort of a woman.
Laura - Mar 10, 2012 10:06:13 am PST #9447 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
ita !, that is exactly the kind of team advocacy that makes the difference. Fight!
sumi - Mar 10, 2012 10:44:30 am PST #9448 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
The doctor came in - definitely spending the night.
He says that I have about 100 pockets in my colon. But there was one that looked different so he tried to make it bleed but couldn't - anyway, he clipped that one and we've just got to keep our fingers crosses that its the one that was the culprit.
Burrell - Mar 10, 2012 11:17:11 am PST #9449 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh Steph, I totally understand the rage! Hoping that you found the calm and are currently kicking someone's ass over at the hospital. Much ~ma to you and your father.
And sumi, much ~ma to you as well. Second night at the hospital isn't fun. I am so so glad you went in to have things checked.
le nubian - Mar 10, 2012 11:36:23 am PST #9450 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sumi,
I don't quite understand the colon, but I'm nodding over here.
the hospital has wifi, so it can't be all bad.