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I need medical help PLEASE!!!
By: GA - 1/22/05 (12:40 AM)
I am humiliated to have to write this message and beg for help, but I truly need help. I have a small navel hernia that is causing me problems. I have to wear a “belt” (the kind that people wear that lift heavy objects) in order to hold in in because I am very afraid that it will enlarge. This is very hard for me to do and conspicuous also.
I have no health insurance at all, so I guess that is why I am being reduced to “begging” for help from some medical doctor. I can afford to pay several hundred dollars, but I can’t afford more than that. This is very embarrassing and humiliating like I said before.
I really do not know what caused this. The only thing I can think of is that I have had to lift a lot of very heavy weight. I noticed this a couple of years ago and I have had to live with this ever since. I have been wearing that belt (as I described above) most of the time and all of the time when I have to lift a lot of weight.
I am sorry that I can’t afford health care. It is just too expensive for me. I am also ashamed and humiliated that I can’t afford to go to the hospital and try to get help because the cost would be astronomical.
This is very hard for me to have to beg for help, but I am so afraid this now small hernia will enlarge and get worse. It does cause me problems because I have to keep pushing the bulge “back in” and so that is why I have started wearing that “belt” to keep it in.
I hope and pray that some doctor or medical person will read this and find it within them to offer me a way to have this repaired, either at low cost, or some kind of low payment per month way. Like I have previously said, this is very embarrassing and humiliating, but I just don’t think I can take this much longer.
I am one of those people who work, but do not make enough to afford health care insurance and I am also not “poor” enough to get it free, so you see, I am trapped in between.
I truly need help if someone would PLEASE offer some! Thank you! This would have to be discreet, because I am already ashamed and humiliated enough to have to beg like this.
Anyone can write me here or at my email address, which is:
GuardianAngel2000@jesusanswers.com
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RE: I need medical help PLEASE!!!
By: Miss Clara - 1/25/05 (11:32 PM)
This is so very sad, and I want to say I would do anything I could to help you if I could. I can't believe this kind of thing is happening in this country while Mr. Bush is spending 1 Billion dollors a week for his take-over of Iraq. It is shameful. I am afraid that if you are hoping and praying for some doctor to see this and help you, then you are going to be very dissapointed! One cannot find ANY doctor today who gives a damn at all about anyone except about how much money can be made off a person's misery. If some doctor responds to your plea, then I will have to eat my words, but I do not think I will have to because the sad fact about the way it is today is that NOBODY gives a damn about anyone else!
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RE: I need medical help PLEASE!!!
By: rm - 2/11/05 (2:27 PM)
try to contact Marvin Zindler in Houston Texas. He works on a news station and helps people in similar situations. it's one of these houston channels,(2,11,13, or 26)
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RE: I need medical help PLEASE!!!
By: hmm - 2/22/05 (1:28 PM)
I sure wish Icould help. I had the same wrong with me.luckly I had insurance. I know what you mean when you work and can't afford insurance or sometimes it doesn't cover very much.I know a person that a medical card has paid for SEVEN babies and TWO more coming.There should be a limit on how many . First time can be a mistake, but NINE is way out of line for the tax payers to pay Since this person or husband doesn't work. there are so many really trying god bless you.
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RE: I need medical help PLEASE!!!
By: GuardianAngel2000 - 2/28/05 (11:23 PM)
I want to thank you very much for your kind words of assistance. Something strange has happened as my hernia has shrunk very much. I no longer have to wear that belt all the time. I only wear it when I have to lift heavy weights, because the hernia has shrunk NOTICABLY and is pretty small now. I do not know what has caused this, or if it is prayers or what. I do know that I resorted to heavy praying as a last resort because I had no alternative. I am amazed, yet I do not know if this is healing itself or what, but I do know that it is MUCH smaller and looks so VERY much better. Maybe God does truly hear prayers after all and maybe, just maybe He has heard the prayers of those who are afflicted. I do not know the answer to this, but this is an AMAZING thing that has happened! I am almost speechless! Maybe this goes even further than just helping me, maybe it is a way for God to show that He still hears, I just do not know, but it is very amazing! Thanks to all who tried to help! I feel so very much better, but I confess, I do not understand what is going on, but SOMETHING IS!!!
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this is a human call to humanity
By: Larissa - 4/12/05 (9:51 AM)
I graduated last year from medical school, started as an intern this year in Amman/Jordan a country in the Middle East,during my rotation, I saw in the oncology team a patient, whom I almost threw up when i saw him, but when i knew his story,I just wept,I cried because I saw how a human could possibly be avoided for someting that is out of his hands, he has a tumor fungating into the larynx and trachea to the outside, you can actualy see the trachea and the secretions coming out of it, it has a very bad odor,he can't eat or drink because food can pass out!! he's abandoned by his relatives and even the oncology team are desperate with his case just trying palliatively with him, no one asks about him, and he's only 32!!!! when I knew his story I tried to hold up all my strength just not to show him that I'm disgusted of him, and put on a smiling face, first he was aggressive with me, maybe he thought I was just a curious doctor to see how incredible and rare case he is, but I'm trying to come everymorning and just tell him hello and smile, today he replied at last and for the first time he said something ached me greatly...that he's a human being and I'm the only one to treat him as so, not merely as a patient who will die sooner or later, he told me he just wanted someone to ask about him, and just say goodmorning.....whatelse can I do to him, I wish there was a cure for cancer, i wish i could donate something just to let people like him go back to their families,i wish i stop crying everytime i see a terminal stage patient clinging to life with a string of hope that some miracle would cure them, please, tell me how can i raise his spirits high?
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RE: I need medical help PLEASE!!!
By: GuardianAngel2000 - 4/16/05 (1:45 AM)
Larissa,
Oh what a good person you are! I have found out with my own medical problem that things can sometimes change in an amazing way. While my hernia has not gone away completely, it has improved so much that it truly borders on miraculous. I was really at the end of my rope and really suffering from this and then I prayed hard and something truly amazing happened. My hernia started shrinking!!! It is so much better that I can't believe it. It is now not very noticable at all and I think it is improving daily! I have only one thing to attribute this too and it is the power of prayer. I had no one to help me at all and apparently God heard my prayer and helped me, because this hernia is so very much smaller and better that I cannot believe it! I am telling the absolute truth here and I do REALLY believe that this is going to heal itself and go completely away. It is so sad to not be able to afford medical treatment. Something is so very, VERY wrong when medical treatment is beyond the reach of many people in a country that is so rich such as the USA. How can you raise his spirits high? Tell him that there is ALWAYS a chance that God can help! I am the living proof!!! Everyone said this hernia could only be helped by surgery but it is improving all the time! I know from this and other things that have happened in my life that there is ALWAYS a chance that things can get better. My mother has had serious medical problems (a broken neck and cirrhosis (however you spell it) of the liver so severe that doctors said she could not live! Almost ALL her liver was destroyed when she was only in her early 50's. She is now 84 years old and in good health, thanks to her faith in God!!! God healed her from this and He also healed her broken neck and prevented paralysis (after doctors said it was EXTREMELY serious and life-threatening. She fell and broke her neck in 1987 and it was completely broken and she was up walking around with the bones moving back and forth and suffered ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEMS from it. I AM CERTAIN that God helped her and saved her and cured her completely. Her doctor said that it was a miracle. I knew that God did that and helped her. He has helped her with numerous severe health problems! I know that some people do not believe this is possible but I know from my own experience that God does answer prayers. Miraculous things can TRULY happen but the thing is the person who needs the help MUST believe that God can do it! Believing makes a HUGE difference. I know this does not always happen but the fact is that is DOES HAPPEN some of the time and it has for me and for the ones I love MANY TIMES!!! No matter how SEVERE the problem, believe me, there is ALWAYS HOPE and the chance that something we do not quite understand can alter the facts and healings can and DO take place!!! The world DEFINITELY NEEDS more caring people like you and I say GOD BLESS YOU!!!!
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a call for humanity
By: Larissa - 4/29/05 (3:56 AM)
Dear Guardian Angel:
I realy want to thank you for your powerful words that have reached deep into my soul beyond what I can describe,actually your words touched me personally, indeed Believing in Faith and the unlimited power of God is something amazingly makes one look to life with eyes full of hope for the better, you know what the key word that this patient is stuggling for is...the CHANCE that he'll go through this and bypass it with SUCCESS, I guess this coming Easter is a great thing to remember that there's a new chance always and a new life....THANX for giving me some of your time...PEACE
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RE: I need medical help PLEASE!!!
By: J.Bennett - 8/6/05 (3:21 PM)
My Father had an elevated afp reading of 5.2 what does this mean
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