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From: skunker on 8 Apr 2008 16:44 Peter, you may be putting Howard on the spot, but I think you would do well in Texas, especially if your cousin can transport you. I feel for you. What area of Texas were you considering? I can do some looking around for good doctors in the area based on the some people I know.
From: Peter on 8 Apr 2008 17:49 skunker wrote: > Peter, you may be putting Howard on the spot, but I think you would do > well in Texas, especially if your cousin can transport you. I feel for > you. What area of Texas were you considering? I can do some looking > around for good doctors in the area based on the some people I know. My cousin lives in Fort Worth and Dallas is about 50 miles from Fort Worth but Fort Worth would be the most desireable, but a gastro is a gastro and I don't know if they have impedance testing in either city. Howard could do the complete workup diagnosis right in his practice like I said. I don't think you understand what I have been through, but thanks for your concern....Pete
From: skunker on 8 Apr 2008 23:24 Pete, I have Barrett's and I'm only in my 20s. I had open niseen at age 14 and to this day suffer, though not as bad as you described (though at nights I have burns and need to sleep inclined, often times ditching my bed for the recliner). I live in San Antonio, a couple of hours south of Dallas. I know Dallas is a great medical city and Houston is probably one of the best in the nation. That's where I went to surgery in the early 90s. Great work. Anyways, they do impedence testing I'm sure--isn't it quite common? If I can be of any help, let me know. Good luck and I am confident you'll find someone to help you soon. Often times it's a change of scenery one needs to get renewed hope for a better life. Even if you just fly someplace and get it done. Good luck and keep us posted.
From: Peter on 9 Apr 2008 14:34 skunker wrote: > Pete, > I have Barrett's and I'm only in my 20s. I had open niseen at age 14 > and to this day suffer, though not as bad as you described (though at > nights I have burns and need to sleep inclined, often times ditching > my bed for the recliner). > > I live in San Antonio, a couple of hours south of Dallas. I know > Dallas is a great medical city and Houston is probably one of the best > in the nation. That's where I went to surgery in the early 90s. Great > work. Anyways, they do impedence testing I'm sure--isn't it quite > common? > > If I can be of any help, let me know. Good luck and I am confident > you'll find someone to help you soon. Often times it's a change of > scenery one needs to get renewed hope for a better life. Even if you > just fly someplace and get it done. Good luck and keep us posted. Thank you skunker. I suffer 24/7 (non stop) and it has nothing to do with eating or sleeping and I also have my bed raised. It is going to be so hard to move - I am going to stay with my cousin's friend in the interim. She doesn't even know me and she invited me down and told me she would give me her bedroom and private bath and come up and get me with my cousin - isn't that incredibly and unbelievably awesome (I have never done anything like that before, ie lived with a stranger, and am so scared, but I feel I have to go and not come back). I have been eating Thanksgiving and Christmas by myself for so long (unheard of for most people) and do not want to die by myself - but I am a loner and it is nice to have your privacy sometimes. I will up and abandon my beautiful house (which I swore would be my last residence) and try to settle on it long distance, and there are so many complications with today's market (and the moving complications later on and can I do that from down there, and I will have to store my stuff till I find another house, etc), and I will lose my beautiful complete woodworking shop and my pool table etc (too much trouble to start over again moving that stuff and buying an oversized house and garage, and living by myself - I haven't been in my shop in two years). But the BIGGEST worry of all is my health and the thought of never getting better or getting relief - it is so depressing living in constant burning pain and very difficult to go on - but I feel I have to move because I have no one to help me where I am, except that one person I mentioned (and I am hoping she can work things out with the moving company later and sign for me etc). Trying to do all this long distance from Texas will be so hard but I am starting the wheels turning, working on selling my shop tools (approx $20,000 worth) - I will take such a loss if I have to auction it - everything is in perfect shape. They (my cousin and her friend) said they could come up and get me in May and I was thinking of taking my truck and car down with the stuff I don't want the movers to steal - lol . And then there is the thought that I might not like the cultural shock of Texas (besides from the heat), but I have to go, since I have no one here to help me, so what to hell. It will be difficult but I am going to do it. I feel like I am dying but it will be a slow death. Sorry for the rambling and thanks again for your concern...Pete PS - I believe San Antonio is a considerable distance from Dallas and Fort Worth by looking at a map. My cousin said about five hours. I don't know if they do impedance testing in Dallas or Fort Worth. I don't know why it is so difficult to find a place that does impedance testing (It's not rocket science). I don't think they do it in Maryland at all (not even at Hopkins or Univ of MD). It's just another nose hose test but it measures resistance - Howard is an expert on all this stuff, as you know.
From: Howard McCollister on 10 Apr 2008 08:28
"skunker" <skunker(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:c5476499-5743-4000-8b27-ac2e22e60590(a)a23g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... > Peter, you may be putting Howard on the spot, but I think you would do > well in Texas, especially if your cousin can transport you. I feel for > you. What area of Texas were you considering? I can do some looking > around for good doctors in the area based on the some people I know. > I can call our Sandhill Scientific rep (impedance testing equipment) and see if he knows who has that equipment in the DFW area, if that would be helpful. HMc |