Devon… how are you doing…
You can tell from this last pic a crew has been selected and work begun on them as well.
Pilot: Ben Hancock
Engineer: Dave Taylor
Fireman 1: Devon Sinsley - already laying down on the job.
Fireman 2: John Caughey
Sean McGillicuddy said:
Devon… how are you doing…
Not good. I just have chose to stop complaining about it. The wound in my side, the ones that the wound doc and surgeon said was healed and that there was nothing to fix, re-abscessed in a new spot this time and I had to express out a whole bunch of dark black blood and thick puss. So nothing has changed on that front and since they didn’t do the surgery two weeks ago to clean out what ever is causing this, I now have to start over. I see the wound doc on Friday. The surgeon won’t do the surgery until I am referred back by the wound doc. Even though the problem he agreed to fix two weeks ago still exists. So its back and forth back and forth. And all of this is preventing me from the main objective of getting a shunt placed. So in the meantime I am suffer from debilitating head aches, ear aches, eye aches, and my vision is still going south. In other words just another day in the life. Its frustrating. The solution seems simple a small day surgery to open me up, take out what ever is causing this and stitch me up. I don’t know why this is so hard to get accomplished.
Gee … sorry I asked … we think of you a lot and hope this gets taken care of soon … (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif)
Good grief, Devon! I hope this catch-22 (the best catch there is!) is over soon. How frustrating! Well, that and painful 
If having people vouch for you with the doc would help, I bet a whole bunch of LSCers would be happy to spam their facebook page…
Devon Sinsley said: I don’t know why this is so hard to get accomplished.
I’m going to speculate that it may have something to do with that the ones who do the doing are saddled with responsibility for the results of the doing.
Oh man, buddy, I was so hoping you were doing better.
We don’t want to remind you of your pain, it’s our abundance of love that compels us.
Since your case has gone so atypically, I’d bet they are researching and getting opinions for your next step.
Be Blessed my buddy.
Sorry to hear this is such a hassle… all you can do is keep pushing… hang in there, we are all pulling for you.
Greg
I am actually doing as well as I can on the mental front. Its actually getting to be humorous. I get quite a chuckle at how many different ways there are to not treat the obvious. This is the third time since being under the care of the wound doc that it has healed abscessed, healed and abscessed. How long do you watch this go on before common sense kicks in and you say "suppin ain’t rite here"I am going to ask the doc on Friday to give me some Lidocaine and I will take care of it myself. Whatever it is is not deep, couple cm down maybe. I have exacto knives, forceps, super glue and duct tape. Oh and i even have a bottle of 99% alcohol and a torch for sterilization.
I am just very tired. Exhausted really.
Forrest Scott Wood said:
Devon Sinsley said: I don’t know why this is so hard to get accomplished.
I’m going to speculate that it may have something to do with that the ones who do the doing are saddled with responsibility for the results of the doing.
Forrest,
I think you are way closer to home than you may realize. My former brain surgeon worked with the wound doc and the general surgeon. They are cronies. If it is found that she was negligent and left something in me that shouldn’t be there then their friend is on the hook. So I think, or at least I feel like, the agenda is if they wait it out long enough eventually the body will surround it in a calcified cyst and the problem will go away. then they can pretend nothing happened and everyone is off the hook. If they go in and find something then they are on the hook for rolling their friend and colleague under the bus. I pray this is not what is going on. especially since I have little to no desire to sue anyone. I just want to be better.
John,
Hows your battle going?
Devon Sinsley said:
John,
Hows your battle going?
In a nut’s shell; 1st round of chemo left my body too sore for massages! Then the 4 hot shots of radiation in my lung left me breathless. A scheduled Lab revealed my white blood cells had plummeted from 4.7k to 1.3k, 2 shots brought them back in time for me to realize I wasn’t breathing well enough to go to sleep … After a rush CT scan I’m on steroids and have my chemo set to resume on Monday …
Piece o’ cake. But dang man, you make it hard for me to get any sympathy around here! I wish you’d get well.(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Yer Buddy
Well you have my sympathy and prayer. What your going through makes what I’m going through look like a trip to Disneyland. I wouldn’t want to go through that at all.
Devon Sinsley said:
Well you have my sympathy and prayer. What your going through makes what I’m going through look like a trip to Disneyland. I wouldn’t want to go through that at all.
Oh no you don’t! I had those headaches 30 years ago, I know what you are enduring. I’m the lucky one, you blasted sympathy deserver! (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
I get my health care through the University of Az, as a teaching horspital, they tend to touch all the bases and do weekly if not daily evaluations of the care. Every patient reacts at their own pace, as soon as I let them know, I get taken care of.
Since my Bro in law was a professor of pathology there, my sister knows the system and how to get me the best care.
See I am the lucky one, I’m praying to get you equal care!
Well I do wish I got better care. thats the worst of this who thing is the marginal care. This would be a lot more tolerable if I had proactive instead of reactive docs. I mean I have excellent insurance, there is nothing that my insurance does not approve or payout on. So I really do not understand the hesitation to give me the best care.
That has to be frustrating.
Devon, man, I hate you’re having to go through all this. I can only imagine how frustrating it is. I pray you get some relief soon.
Devon Sinsley said:
Well I do wish I got better care. thats the worst of this who thing is the marginal care. This would be a lot more tolerable if I had proactive instead of reactive docs. I mean I have excellent insurance, there is nothing that my insurance does not approve or payout on. So I really do not understand the hesitation to give me the best care.
Dude, I know its easy for me to say from the sidelines, but if you aren’t being treated the way you think you should be treated, then go find someone who will treat you the way you should be treated. Its your health and its your body dam it! You deserve to be on the path to wellness, not in the endless cycle of “well, lets see what happens.”
I let a doctor talk me into not getting an MRI for my rotator cuff injury. So we never found out how bad it was injured. Now, nearly 30 years later, and its still not right. I should have grown a set and demanded proper investigation of the injury. My fault, so I still get to suffer, especially when the weather abruptly changes. My point is, don’t let this drag on indefinitely just because you want to be a nice guy. It’s time to demand action, or go find another doctor.
Steve Featherkile said:
That has to be frustrating.
Are you volunteering to take Devon’s sterile #11 blade to his abodomen? Give him a stick to bite down on, and start digging the mystery out? 
Steve Featherkile said:
That has to be frustrating.
Steve,
You know more than most how frustrating it is. You get the pictures. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
