HMO wonderland

[thornapple]

Every week I find one more reason why my HMO needs to let me see the specialist a 3 hour drive away instead of the yahoos (pardon me, yahoos, for insulting you, but you know NOT MUCH about my condition) in their approved network.

I have trouble swallowing and I have been told anything from "it's hysteria" (I'm sorry, what you mistake for hysteria is simply an intelligent woman fed up with YOUR attitude) to nothing is wrong to anxiety as the cause. If I am not anxious and food is just sitting in my throat not going anywhere for five swallows, something is up. It didn't do that the first 40 years of my life....and it's pissing me off, not making me anxious and is not the result of anxiety.

Well READ MY LIPS>>> or rather, read this link.

http://www.abta.org/siteFiles/SitePages/A9376253B7744AA7766C38CAB9B304FE.pdf

So, does it not say that one of the symptoms is "trouble swallowing"? it looks like that in black and white to me.

HA. Research leads to vindication almost every time.

I am on a campaign to get my HMO to let me go to the specialist for monitoring this. They know what they are doing and have a TEAM of experienced people who will monitor my tumor much more reliably than local people in my HMO who won't even bother to read the literature I send them to educate them on stuff they know so little about. At this point I know more than they do, and I obviously care more.

HMOs are sooooooo dense.

[Yvette]

Hi Apple, my symptoms followed a progression, and after my right arm and hand were affected, my neurologist said he feared that the next step would be my ability to swallow. I had my AN removed via translab 2 months later at the Mayo Clinic. Even if you have to print out material and stick it in their faces while demanding acknowledgement, I would do it. Keep us informed, Yvette

[thornapple]

 

Stick it in their faces or anywhere else it will get their attention. heh.