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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-11 01:06 PM
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29. Thank you SO much for this. We also need more, FAR more "This is what you CAN do" posts.
So many people on DU are down and bitter, and it's blinding them to their own power. It's heartbreaking to see. Everyone can do something to help themselves and others get better, to have more control over their lives, but when you're hurting and scared it takes a huge effort to drag up any impetus to be effective in ways that not only help you, but help and inspire those around you. I very much appreciate your post.

And to anyone who feels criticized, I say this with faith and hope. I haven't given up on you. Don't give up on you.
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  -To the male DUers and their partners/spouses: PCIntern  Sep-16-11 08:10 PM   #0 
  - Excellent advice.  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-16-11 08:14 PM   #1 
  - Absolutely  Hoosier Daddy   Sep-17-11 12:58 PM   #27 
  - K & R. n/t  chill_wind   Sep-16-11 08:16 PM   #2 
  - As a guy that had a Grandfather that had colon cancer and an Uncle  Arctic Dave   Sep-16-11 08:20 PM   #3 
  - I'm not a male, but will speak for one, my husband who almost ended up on Kidney Dialysis because he  in_cog_ni_to   Sep-16-11 08:38 PM   #4 
  - OMG! !!!!!  Liberal_in_LA   Sep-17-11 04:05 PM   #42 
  - Having UC and GERD, doctors regularly come at me from both ends  Kennah   Sep-16-11 08:48 PM   #5 
  - I call it endoscopy and other-endoscopy  eggplant   Sep-16-11 11:17 PM   #7 
  - Same here. Next round of both  emilyg   Sep-17-11 09:21 PM   #69 
  - "My" doctor and I'm projectng ALL doctors, HATE us/OBAMA  UTUSN   Sep-16-11 09:01 PM   #6 
  - Not sure if I could keep seeing a Dr. with that kind of atitude  Papagoose   Sep-17-11 06:25 AM   #9 
  - My Doc hates Obama too. n/t  Joey Liberal   Sep-17-11 06:13 PM   #59 
  - I watched my Dad die slowly from Prostate Cancer  Papagoose   Sep-17-11 06:22 AM   #8 
  - Good advice, hell, great advice. But...  MedicalAdmin   Sep-17-11 11:44 AM   #18 
     - *hugs* It shouldn't be this way in the "greatest country on earth."  GreenPartyVoter   Sep-17-11 12:25 PM   #22 
     - Thanks. And hugs right back.  MedicalAdmin   Sep-17-11 12:52 PM   #24 
     - Get the tests! Don't die! A shit load of bills are better than death  Auntie Bush   Sep-17-11 12:45 PM   #23 
        - Good advice that I'll be ignoring.  MedicalAdmin   Sep-17-11 01:00 PM   #28 
        - Beg, borrow or steal the money for the tests...then get the treatment and let the bills pile up.  Auntie Bush   Sep-17-11 01:15 PM   #30 
        - I'm not trying to be rude, but you are not getting it.  MedicalAdmin   Sep-17-11 02:35 PM   #34 
        - I am sure if you called you local children and family organization and explained  Maraya1969   Sep-17-11 03:52 PM   #40 
           - Not to put too fine a point on it but I do know about all of them.  MedicalAdmin   Sep-18-11 07:35 AM   #71 
              - I hear that. Screw begging and spaghetti dinners. That's not only inffective it's  GreenPartyVoter   Sep-18-11 11:33 AM   #75 
              - Hug.  MedicalAdmin   Sep-18-11 05:28 PM   #76 
              - If you are anywhere near New York, go to work at the UN.  emcguffie   Sep-19-11 02:58 AM   #78 
              - Thanks for the advice. Interesting stuff and I once wanted to work there.  MedicalAdmin   Sep-19-11 05:11 PM   #81 
              - .  OnyxCollie   Sep-19-11 03:08 AM   #80 
        - I can't presume to speak for MedicalAdmin, but... I have considered that without health insurance it  GreenPartyVoter   Sep-17-11 01:26 PM   #31 
           - Exactly. You do speak for me on this issue.  MedicalAdmin   Sep-17-11 02:47 PM   #35 
              - It's so stressful. When I still qualified for medicaid, at least I knew I had that in my corner. But  GreenPartyVoter   Sep-17-11 04:17 PM   #44 
              - When a country stops caring it's people, do it's people still owe it their loyalty?  MedicalAdmin   Sep-18-11 08:11 AM   #73 
              - Even some of us with insurance, forego healthcare visits.  Kennah   Sep-17-11 11:30 PM   #70 
  - Great advice  steve2470   Sep-17-11 06:33 AM   #10 
  - Thank you, wise words  DemReadingDU   Sep-17-11 09:30 AM   #11 
  - thanks!  PCIntern   Sep-17-11 09:37 AM   #12 
  - "We can't afford.."  Marnie   Sep-17-11 10:08 AM   #13 
  - Yes. I know how that is. :^( I guess my husband and I will die of whatever whenever. We have no  GreenPartyVoter   Sep-17-11 12:22 PM   #20 
  - I'm sorry but I can't endorse that attitude.  nolabear   Sep-17-11 12:56 PM   #25 
  - PCIntern, thank you so much for posting this.  Poll_Blind   Sep-17-11 10:13 AM   #14 
  - K&R  Pooka Fey   Sep-17-11 10:39 AM   #15 
  - K & R  orbitalman   Sep-17-11 11:03 AM   #16 
  - Thanks for this warning - my husband went to a urologist for a minor  hedgehog   Sep-17-11 11:11 AM   #17 
  - Could you once upon a time write your name in the snow, and are now down to your initials.  Aaria   Sep-17-11 12:18 PM   #19 
  - So print it up on a bunch of broadsides and stick them to the stall doors.  nolabear   Sep-17-11 12:58 PM   #26 
     - That's a great idea. nt  I Have A Dream   Sep-17-11 06:28 PM   #61 
  - I hope you get better and soon. *hugs*  GreenPartyVoter   Sep-17-11 12:22 PM   #21 
  - Thank you SO much for this. We also need more, FAR more "This is what you CAN do" posts.  nolabear   Sep-17-11 01:06 PM   #29 
  - All of that to say "Go give your money to a doctor"  RB TexLa   Sep-17-11 01:36 PM   #32 
  - Nice post! thanks!! n/t  PCIntern   Sep-17-11 01:51 PM   #33 
  - Wow.  Warren DeMontague   Sep-17-11 02:51 PM   #37 
     - I know, the doctors want and deserve to have that money.  RB TexLa   Sep-17-11 04:43 PM   #46 
        - pretty friggin' thoughtless.  Warren DeMontague   Sep-17-11 05:00 PM   #49 
  - Rec #100  MissDeeds   Sep-17-11 02:48 PM   #36 
  - Thanks.  Warren DeMontague   Sep-17-11 02:51 PM   #38 
  - I'm eaking by on workmans comp trying to get SSDI for chronic issues...  Boxerfan   Sep-17-11 02:59 PM   #39 
  - Sorry to hear about your problems!  xynthee   Sep-17-11 08:22 PM   #67 
  - This may sound dumb but why don't women have prostrates? Or do they?  Maraya1969   Sep-17-11 03:56 PM   #41 
  - ??? Women do not have prostates. Go look at an anatomy book, please.  Manifestor_of_Light   Sep-17-11 04:13 PM   #43 
  - You could have explained it to her instead of berating her no?  auntAgonist   Sep-17-11 04:53 PM   #48 
  - Thank you. The problem is prostrate and male is always ending up in the same sentence.  Maraya1969   Sep-17-11 07:54 PM   #63 
  - People cannot learn when they are being humiliated. What could you possibly be trying to achieve?  nolabear   Sep-17-11 05:40 PM   #50 
  - Actually we do have similar tissues that produce a similar fluid which is  LiberalLoner   Sep-17-11 07:17 PM   #62 
  - ??? and some posters do not have manners. go look at an etiquette book, please.  unblock   Sep-17-11 08:15 PM   #65 
  - Maraya1969  auntAgonist   Sep-17-11 04:52 PM   #47 
  - i have good insurance even though my  DesertFlower   Sep-17-11 04:26 PM   #45 
  - Good advice, but I don't see the connection...  Deep13   Sep-17-11 05:42 PM   #51 
  - There isn't one.  REP   Sep-17-11 06:00 PM   #53 
  - Thanks, thought I was the only one. The thread does have some good advice and discussion though.  Hoyt   Sep-17-11 06:07 PM   #55 
  - The connection is my friend  PCIntern   Sep-17-11 06:12 PM   #58 
     - A much better example is Hormone Replacement Therapy, which has known pathologies, many deadly  REP   Sep-17-11 08:08 PM   #64 
        - it is a good example, just not that which happened to me...  PCIntern   Sep-18-11 08:04 AM   #72 
  - My father had bladder cancer that metastasized to his spinal column (untreatable)  REP   Sep-17-11 05:59 PM   #52 
  - Oh PCIntern...  a la izquierda   Sep-17-11 06:05 PM   #54 
  - K & R  SoapBox   Sep-17-11 06:09 PM   #56 
  - it'd be helpful if you were to tell what specific condition/disease. . .  Stargleamer   Sep-17-11 06:09 PM   #57 
  - For whom and how so?  PCIntern   Sep-17-11 06:14 PM   #60 
     - Well, for those who you urge to go to the doctor. . .  Stargleamer   Sep-17-11 09:07 PM   #68 
        - I do believe that I have self-disclosed quite enough here...  PCIntern   Sep-18-11 08:27 AM   #74 
  - as a guess as to the general condition, i'll note that prostate surgery has improved greatly  unblock   Sep-17-11 08:21 PM   #66 
  - Thank you very much for this great info, PCIntern. REC and KICK.  bertman   Sep-18-11 09:59 PM   #77 
  - bla bla bla  Skip Intro   Sep-19-11 02:59 AM   #79 
  - I drink enough scotch to kill any cancer  Broderick   Sep-19-11 05:14 PM   #82 
 

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