OMG They Found the Cure for Stupid

ZJ, hahahahahaha....good one. Thanks for the much needed laugh.

Sorry I missed you PP Iris. I'm glad you're feeling better.

Cure for stupidity. Listening to your Doctor when tired, dealing with one life altering medical condition that only gets worse.. and having a second tossed in like a grenade and doing what you are told you must when you are scared and not telling them leave me alone.

This last November I had my routine mammogram 5 yrs after the last as told, in November I was dealing with Multiple Sclerosis that had already damaged my life almost beyond keeping going for family. My son, Parents.. {Some background.}. I lost my career, I woke up to being just a door mat in my marriage when my MS was considered everyone inconvenience.. Like it didn't effect me it just meant I couldn't do everything I was supposed to.. take care of dementia mother in law, drive long trips so my Bass fisherman Hubby who never caught more then maybe two and most all were zero.. but I was supposed to back the boat in, wait in a parking lot, pick the boat up after the lost tournament.. it was always he didn't have the right equipment or the day had a issue..over 20,000 spent on fishing stuff not counting the boat.. I got down with my MS, Lyrica had just been prescribed and I was loosing my vision.. Doctor said no not a med conflict.. so I finally on my own started weaning off it and regained 90% of my vision back.. yet they wanted me in a psych ward for not doing things the RIGHT way never mind 3 appointments saying I have a black spot, that black spot is getting worse.. The black spot has almost taken all my vision in my right eye.. I had to fix myself.. I know why the call Doctors "PRACTICING" medicine. Then I get a bad cold, I'm not cooking, dishes, taking care of his mother.. sleeping on a floor because he stole and hyped up his pain from an ortho issue to the point he was on such high doses and still stealing my Darvon..then his drinking a case of beer a night I swear to god no joke.. he trashed his liver, and I had to race him to the hospital and spent the next year pandering to him thru rehab and laxatives to keep ammonia from doing more brain damage..I wanted out so bad but had to get him to a point he could manage.. I was so stupid thinking I needed to do the right thing, leaving a man that called me a frigid bitch and that was the nice terms.. finally I had him up on a walker.. I'd slept on the floor because his incontinence had turned the beautiful waterbed I'd bough years before meeting him into a sewer..getting sick and I had his 7 siblings fussing because I wasn't taking care of him and his mother.. So I got out.. 47 and leaving everything just to get away from an abusive marriage. I left with my clothes.. I gave everything to him in exchange for freedom..

I knew I was scraping the bottom of the barrel when I tucked tail and moved back to my Mom's I haven't dated or even thought about trying to get back in the game 2 strikes and I wasn't going for a third.. Then My uncle got sick.. I went to the hospital and came joking Hey guys what's it going to take to get you out.. My 90 yr old aunt looks at me with tears and says they can't go home, they are being sent to a nursing home.. OH HELL NO.. I demanded to see the discharge nurse and the head of nursing demanding to know why a 90 yr old lady had spent 10 days in a hospital and never given a tray, a bed or anything, why my uncle was so narc-ed out he never knew I was there until 4 days later.. They had listed him as indigent, and no family , never bothering to ask the lady in the room the whole time a damn question.. He'd gotten hit with Shingles and then pneumonia, and they were shipping them off to a warehouse to die.. Never bothering to know this couple until this illness danced Fancy Ballroom dancing 3 days a week, he kept his own stock portfolio and they had used up 3 passports. A love affair of over 60 yrs started as vaudeville came to a close, she'd been a raven haired Shirley Temple and danced nights a the call someone cancelled and school would be caught up some other time. He'd been a accountant for the rail road and they could have donated a wing to that damn hospital should they have wanted... he needed two Iv meds a day for 21 days and they were shipping them off because of that within hours I had a hospital bed being delivered, a shouting match with his doctor who didn't feel I was capable of caring for them.. I'd only been an EMT and Nurse for over 20 yrs.. what did I know??? Right? the difference between Doctors and God.. God is content to just be God Doctors have to Brag they are better..

3 yrs later they don't dance any more but they still live in their upscale condo, and sleep beside each other, and finished sentences.. He's well and recovered and wrote a check at the first Hospital Bill they got in the mail.. The Hospital had to REFUND most of it once his insurance was checked.. The point is you have to be an advocate for some, and sometimes an advocate for yourself.

The November Mammogram wasn't read quickly they waited 3 weeks to get the copy of the old mammogram to compare, meanwhile my 83 yr old father was having issues in Florida that needed an advocate so I drove to Florida. Now at 53 I expected colon cancer it was the family cancer. Or Heart disease.. but Long living family I didn't expect anymore life shattering events.. I was sooo delusional.. they called my cell and 'can you come in we have a blurry image we need to re take the shot Ok when I get back from 4 states away I'll schedule it..Oh well how long will your vacation be?? You'll be back by Christmas surely.. No I'm not on Vacation I am getting my dad thru pacemaker placement used to a CPAP machine, dealing with a bed bug infestation, and an old man that thinks he's a hot rod 17 yr old while driving. Pulling up beside another car when his lane end in a 100 feet giving the car a var-om growl and when the light changed taking off at 50+ mph With me screaming have you lost your MIND.. well if I wreck I can replace it, duh if we survive IT.. trips to the doc where I am pointing out an unusual rash he has that I suddenly also have.. Scabies I always wanted Lice..just to make things more interesting.. then leaving the Dr's office he has a script, I have a buy the shampoo at the drug store and use it like lotion it'll hold till you get to YOUR DOCTOR. Are you freaking Kidding me?? He's going Dancing 4 days a week spreading Lice and bugs and the Doctor treats me as a silly child seen but otherwise ignored.. I mean come on what kind of voodoo do they do in the middle of a swampy area above Orlando ? the doctor looked 80 himself.. So I stay Finish cleaning his home, cooking, listening to him tap dance when he wakes me at 3 am because he woke up and decided to make a snack.. his diabetes he wasn't checking it once a day let alone multiple times and associating how he feels with what his readings were.. I was there until coming back in the new year..

Then that Jan 5th appointment for the mammogram I'd been worrying about for almost a month.. within a less the 30 minute window I'd had the scan, and ultrasound and biopsy done.. I am walking to the car kicking myself why in Heck did I allow them to open it.. Take the area out and do the labs and be done, but opening the little pod of manic cells loose until who knows when??? 2 days later a call I'm calling to tell you your surgeons name and when he'll do your mastectomy..?? WHAT NO way you did not just call and tell me i have cancer like that ! Oh I'm sorry I thought you knew, well anyway I'll set up a consult before your surgery then..

Then let the circus begin.. My Father's advice.. Well heck once your over 50 it ain't like they are used for anything, they are just flabby saggy bags women like to shake at men.. just have em lopped off and be done with em.. needless to say my response isn't printable even in a jail note..and a broken cell phone where I threw it against the brick fireplace..

Then My Aunt lord love her, she has DD' torpedoes or larger and she begins to explain how one of her dance students had that and she had the surgery and did just fine till she died about 10 yrs later..Natural not cancer.. But I am a mild B and some how she just couldn't relate, They'll slip something in and you'll never know it..

Other advice is TURN YOUR BODY MORE ACIDIC cancer feeds off the sugar you ingest..

The surgeon pervert something they had to tag with a marker to be able to find again, he isn't going to find it by feel I know God knows I tried..He stood over me and played with my breasts while he told me ever question I asked was STUPID, Why would you want me to get a lymph node You don't want me doing that !! You'll leave after the surgery and never have to think about it again..Do I really need to say I got up as he sputtered when he thinks he can fit me in.. and I began dressing in front of him and parting shot was tossing the gown in his face saying the only way you are getting near me with a sharp instrument is if I have one that is sharper and longer !

two days of tears later I spoke with the Nurse Navigator for cancer patients. why is it you don't want this take care of.. well why is it that every one of you PROFESSIONALS has told me that there aren't studies to keep tabs on what you call my zero cancer.. It didn't rate anything but they were going to get it come heck or high water.. they had robbed me of the chance to have it followed by mammography, ultrasound biopsy areas an inch or two away so they had some clue.. but no, they have opened Pandora's box .. and now I had to deal with it.. so new surgeon looks 12 but talks to me,answers questions etc.. scheduled surgery and go in.. I have a 2 and a half inch scar that horizontally 2~3 inches above the nipple in sinks in the skin around it mounds up it's over a month later and I still have black old blood that discharges from the nipple so I constantly wear a band-aid. Bras are now loose sports and not anything that bids at all. I have lost over 40 pounds..

Now I just have to figure out HOW THE HECK DO YOU PUT YOUR LIFE BACK TOGETHER??? I get 1,000 a month from SSDI from the MS that food, clothes betca you can guess when I last bought a thing to wear..think Sundays and underwear.. Medication, insurance, and the first bill the day of the second mammogram ultrasound and biopsy that 30 minutes of my life was costing me 13,000. The Surgeon his time well he was a real good deal he only cost me 11,500, then there is the hospital, gotta pay off that new parking structure and tower , they need to stay non profit so I only own them 27,750 and that includes the labs the special bra that was way too big kitchen hand towels to keep any pressure on the site, and two on the other side. Then they finally get to the radiation and chemo part and I'm like NO, the report says that you got it all with clean margins why should I use a magic bullet like radiation now when I may need it in a year and a half more?? Well then Congrats, consider your self Cured.. Cured.. funny word that I am cured of a zero cancer, but my life is ruined. Bank accounts wiped out, clothes that I can't wear without looking like Ellie May Clampet using rope as a belt. Medications i can afford to fill, a for sale sign on a 15 yr old pick up truck, and bills i can never hope to pay if I live to be 200.

Why did I stupidly go get a test I knew was going to be a financial pinch, but my doctor wanted because STANDARD OF CARE age bingo do this. I am 4 months into 2016 and I know it's the worse year of my life. I wish I had never gone for a test never known just leave it alone. At least that way I would own more then a laptop. it's too old to sell.. I'm too old to even think cured is a good thing. the damage is done, my son will have nothing when I am gone it will be sold, the family that has money keeps it and I don't blame them, The ones that care don't have it, My father made a big deal out of cashing out a CD for 10,000 from one bank and putting in another for better interest, but because I didn't stay until he gave permission for me to return he sent me a updated copy of is will he's not only disowned me but my son too for some reason.. the next bubble in economics will pull them down hard enough that wasting it on this is just throwing good after bad. It was Microscopic until they took out 2 inches by 2 inches by 2 inches.. why couldn't I have been left to scrape every penny as I have for so long.. Why did I HAVE TO BE CURED and Ruined?

That's my cure for stupidity, don't waste what you have if it's going to leave you worse off.. I wonder what the shelter will be like.. I wonder why I sold my Gun for half what I paid for it so I could pay for a night at a motel and a chance to clean up.. If there is cancer in my body it will only be found in an autopsy because I can't do this again ever.. never again I have been stupid too much.

Me, too Tess. I'm so sorry that you have been through all of this when it sounds like to me you have spent your whole life taking care of other people. I hope that you find some relief

In other words - if you argue with a fool you become one.

I think it's pretty sad that I relate so much to this one. Maybe someone has been peeking in my window??

Is dandelion tea more tasty than green tea? Then I switch :-)

I have to share what my boss said this morning. I just had BMX last week. He called to ask how I'm doing and the two first questions were:

- What is the prognosis? (Really? This is the third time I'm dealing with BC, the prognosis is everyone's guess. 50% I gonna die from cancer, 50% from something else)

- Are you emotionally alright? (But of course, I'm dancing the night away, going from party to a festival, sipping strawberry daquiris).

MoreShoes - that's a man for you. Gentle hugs coming your way!

I'll take your boss Gma.

I was off 3 1/2 weeks with lumpectomy surgery per my BS orders because of my job. My boss actually said they might have to hire somebody during my absence. Mind you this was a professional position with months of training. I managed to last until the end of the year and then they really did have to hire a new trainee lol on them.

Slow..BaHaHa 😃

I know this feeling.

LOL

Hi All..................

thank you Ladies for this post, I have been feeling so down the last few weeks and this was just what I needed to laugh

I read the first 20 pages but no time for the rest today

I have a problem with the cure...I hate asparagus not a fan of cottage cheese either

but hell if it works I am game.

I too have been sent all the cures and told that I caused both my cancers by

smoking pot, drinking pepsi, eating chocolate, drinking coffee, eating red meat (double the risk if you BBQ it)

that I was too thin so my body could not fight off the cancers ( this one from my grossly overweight SIL)

the list goes on

now for the cures - drinking red cider vinegar, ingesting pot instead of smoking it, cutting out an acidic foods, cutting out sugar and so on and so on

Stupidest thing ever said - Breast Cancer is no big deal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my response was okay please call me if you are ever handed that diagnosis and I will tell you how it is no a big deal

so pass the joint ladies and keep the posts coming

I second that Val!