Re: Having the Big C you see who your friends are

["Robert L Bass" <RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> from all I can find out I have one of the best teams
> of doctors available for what im going thru UPMC
> has a very highly rated reputation .Plus best protocol
> being used . The radiation is working and tumor has
> slowed its bleeding and is shrinking. side effect from
> continous infusion chemo are there but I am coping
> with them but very weak compared to how I ususaly
> feel alot has to do with my anemia from the bleeding.

Glad to hear you've got good docs and are making
progress.  The anemia, weakness and other crappy
stuff I know.  I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

I can tell you this much though.  Once the treatments
are done it will take at a minimum six months before
you strart to feel yourself again.  Just hang on though.
It does get btter after a while.

> Finding out now after doing more research on
> colon cancer I had several tale tell signs last
> couple of months that should have clued me to
> a problem. But when you go and look at most
> literature it never mentions these symptoms. Pisses me off they never tell any one to look for
> these. Had I known I would have been in sooner.
> They think I have had it for about a year.

It was the same here.  I had a recurring cough and
occasional chest pain but no other symptoms.
Routine X-rays showed nothing out of the ordinary.

I was very fortunate.  They found it just before it
broke out of the pleura.  Much longer and it would
have been inoperable.  The pain I fealt was from
the mass invading the pleura -- there are no pain
nerves where the tumor started.

> Most likely major syptoms came on after my
> vehicle wreck caused hard trauma to my body.

That may even have exacerbated the development
of the tumor.

> Thank god that doctor checked me and found
> the mass or i could still be playing around not
> knowing what was going on. they still insist you
> only need a colonoscopy starting at 50 and
> now i know better...

If not for the accident you probably would have
died within a few months.  Strange to be glad of
having been in a wreck, eh?

> MOTHER FUCKING LOW LIFE SCUM
> INSURANCE COMPANYS telling everyone to
> get them at 50 what there not telling people is
> if theres a family history you need checked
> from age 35 and up every other year.

Exactly.  With my family history cancer was a
probability yet they still only started when I
reached 50.  Now I'm having a full workup
every year and interim CT scans every four
months for at least five years.

> You think these MOTHER FUCKING LOW
> LIFE INSURANCE COMPANYS would pay for these tests early for high risks groups but
> they would rather pay high treatment costs
> and let us die instead.

To them it's a numbers game.  They don't even
consider that human life, not to mention horrific
suffering is involved.  It's like epecting Wal-Mart
to care about the local mom and pop stores
they put out of business.  It makes no difference
that the local guys spent 40 years building a
business with the sweat of their brows.  They
just plow them under like so much manure in a
pasture.

> My wife has a lady friend in 30s who has
> had parents on both sides with breast cancer
> she is worried and they will not pay for simple
> mamography test.

Really?  I thought there was a law about that.
Maybe it's just a state thing.

> I could not get insurance from these MOTHER
> FUCKING LOW LIFE INSURANCE COMPANYS
> becuse too many prexisting condtions so all i
> could ever get was a very low end cover nothing
> policy...

I bought insurance through one of my businesses.
The rates are slightly higher but they can't refuse
any worker based on prior health issues and the
rates are only based on employee age.  If you're
self employed or you own a corporation, that
can be a real help.

> It is just wrong. As many millions of dollars
> every year i save these MOTHER FUCKING
> LOW LIFE SCUM INSURANCE COMPANYS...

If you see them for what they are (money machines
with no humanity) it helps to understand.  There is
no gratitude for anything.  There's no emotion or
sense of responsibility.  All the TV ads showing
kind-hearted "neighbors" caring for the customers
are total bulljim.  Remember what State Farm did
to the people of Lousiana?

> When i got severly hurt and permanately
> crippled back in 92 they fucked me hard twice
> they refused to pay for the accident and then
> did not want to pay me for disabilty policy i had
> in place and i had to take them to court...

I didn't realize you'd been in a bad accident.  Hope
you got punitive damages out of them.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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