One stop shopping for health advice !

[Guest guest]

You know I am just so grateful to have this group for health advice. I

really don't trust health care professionals these days. This group

online is so knowledgeable and you can't beat Marilyns advice - that I

am not asking anyone but this group anymore.

This is one bunch of savy people. I guess this group know that when

you walk thru the darkness of illness you comeout with the lightness of

knowledge.

Thanks everyone !

CD - 3 years

SCD - 2 years

[Guest guest]

At 01:35 PM 10/6/2008, you wrote:

You know I am just so grateful

to have this group for health advice. I really don't trust health care

professionals these days. This group online is so knowledgeable and you

can't beat Marilyns advice - that I am not asking anyone but this group

anymore.

,

Well, I thank you for the compliment, but I do want to remind you, and

everyone, that I'm not a doctor, so while I can give you my opinion and

suggestions, I can't dispense medical advice. The same is true of most

everyone else on this list. (At least, no one has yet sent me a scan of

their medical license.)

Believe me, I understand being frustrated with Western health care

professionals. The thing you have to remember is that they aren't

generally trained to handle chronic disorders. Not their fault: it's what

they were taught.

But you also have to remember that when it comes to emergency situations,

like my Mom's congestive heart failure attack, or the Flare from H-ll

which doesn't want to quit, that we are incredibly fortunate to have

excellent medical care.

I also have to look, for instance, at the really top mark gynecologist I

found (off my insurance's website, of all things!) who diagnosed my

cancer, and who referred me to a really incredible oncologist. That

oncologist cooperated fully with me in staying 100% SCD before, during,

and after my surgery.

Yes, I get really frustrated, too, with the people who don't acknowledge

that diet plays a role in health. <g> I try to tamp it down,

though, 'cause getting frustrated sure doesn't improve MY health

any. I will try to educate them if I think they might be receptive,

though....

—

Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

Marilyn is absolutely right about being careful when

dispensing advice. Sometimes my enthusiasm for the diet needs to be tempered –

we all need to be sensible . We need our Doctors – my husband would be

dead from a heart attack and would of left me with 3 young kids if it weren’t

for some keen detective work on his Doctors part. I think we just need assume

more responsibility about being informed of the different opinions in our own

care. I am grateful to Google as well and the internet for being a source of

information.

Thanks.