A Blog about Riding.....

Posted by Tumbles on 11/9/2009 1:16:12 PM

Alright now don't be getting yourselves all worked up. I can tell you all honestly right now this ride blog nothing really exciting happened, I didn't go anywhere fantastic. Nothing amazing happened. It was just a peacful ride. I've had a pretty depressing time peroid. It seems that a nother friends father passed on but this man it was a great relief for him to pass. I know that's really horrible thing to say but its just how I see it. I really didn't know him all that well at all not like I knew Moe. But he had cancer, it took the doctors 3 months to take the man to surgery to remove the tumor and when they finially decided to do so after the PET scan his mass grew 5 times the size it was originally. All I can say DUH Doctors DUH. Cancer cell grow faster and multiply faster than regular cells and waiting 3 months to decide to do durgery, To wait until the patients life is serously compromised, not to mention the high stress knowing that you have a mass that is growing inside for 3 months. How the hell should the family feel, how should the paitent feel? I am angry about this at the moment and I really dont' know why I can't explain it. I myself am 2 time cancer survior. I can't imagine having to wait so long for the medical community to help. Me I was rushed along faster than I could keep up. Hell, I had surgery the first time 4 days after the discovery of the mass, a double luman port placed, and a round of chemo all scheduled in less than a weeks time. I was doing research on the type of cancer I had when the second surgery took place and radiations started. But here this man sat there the doctors and hospital should be ashamed of themselves. Shads, Shads they brag in their TV commercials how they are team up with UF for the best cancer treatment one can recieve. Bullshit Is what I have to say. They dropped the ball big time and I still will say the south is 10 - 15 years behind in medical research. Don't even try to change my mind if your from the south and in the medical field. This man should have had a biopsy done, gotten results, scheduled for surgery, chemo started, and an attack plann formed not getting the run around, Its a small lump that's growing we need it to grow to ist full potential before we remove. What the hell is that? Is that what they are teaching Oncologists nowL? Is this what the great UF teaches? If someone can explain it to me why he had to wait then I'll listen. There was not heart disease, kidney failure, diabetis, just no poor health conditions that the needed to wait for. the reason it took so long is someone dropped the ball. Plan and simple. Anyway I had that on my mind I guess and needed to get it out. I guess I dont' really have a right to be angry because its not my dad, but Cory is my friend and I'm angry for her and her family so they can concentrate on the grieving process. I will not encourage lawsuit or anything like that but if the family wishes to pursue I will encourgae and help them with the reasearch to slap these doctors attitudes that we are the lastest in all the land but we stood by and did nothing while waching a man die, because we are UF and shands the finest cancer treatment in North Florida. If there is medical malpractice I will help them and encourgae. Why?? because it could easily be me or you....that's why. If they don't persue I won't either. I'm angry for all the patients that sit with out help now. Most of all I'm affraid for myself, will I need to go back north to be treated properly or with in reason? Well thank goodness there's the Mayo Clinic and my current insuance does allow me to go there. I guess this really was a rant and not a ride. Let me come back later and write about my ride, I will go to the beach now and play with my foster kids inorder to work though my sudden anger about this topic. have a great day! "T