First I am very sorry for your care and my father had a similar 
experience so I know a little of what you went through. Terrible....Yes 
I have had many bad medical experiences both with family members and for 
myself. I do not think the US is a good place to get health care. I now 
live in Ecuador and it is much more humane and sane and cheap!!!
This summer my healthy 15 year old grandson got MRSA, the bug you can't 
get rid of. He was on intravenous IV in hospital for 3 weeks and sent 
home with intravenous IV. Doctors do not know how he got it but I think 
he was in some dirty ocean water in Hawaii. At any rate he fully 
recovered and a search on the internet found only 8 countries have MRSA 
and they are all considered developed or IMO over developed.
Another grandson got whooping cough when there was an outbreak in my 
daughters rural neighborhood. We told every doctor what it was, 4 docs 
trying to get someone to swab and culture, finally ER and they finally 
cultured. Yes we were right so now comes the public health official 
claiming its contagious and he cannot go to school. This is what we 
thought all along. However the school sees it differently. The District 
Attorney was called and my daughter, her husband, myself, the VP, the 
counselor all sat down.
My grandson is never in trouble, comes straight home from 7th grade and 
we have to listen to the DA saying he is the type of kid who winds up in 
juvenile hall because he misses school. I was so angry. It feels 
fascist, punitive and uncaring in the US.
Contrast that with being able to see a specialist any time and having 
the docs give you their cell phones so you can call anytime. House 
calls!!! It's amazing.

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:23:14 -0500, James Fee wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am just coming out of a chapter of my life that has been the second
> most horrendous of
> them all.  On October 11th I had a cervical spinal fusion.  The 
> surgeon
> noticed "considerable"
> swelling and left the interbation tube in place.  I was in ICU for 
> three
> days when an attending
> took it upon himself to remove it.  My airway promptly swelled closed
> completely, I had to be
> reinterbated and I bleed from the nose and mouth.  After that I 
> remained
> in a drug induced comma for 14 days.  I finally had to have a trach, 
> and
> a feeding tube placed.  All the while (so
> I'm told by my wife) the nurses were running around trying to learn 
> how
> to "treat" me for my
> cerebral palsy and were perturbed that I was on meds. for it, nor was 
> I
> having therapy in a
> rehab facility.  I was supposed to be in the hospital for a total of 
> 4
> days, I was actually there for 28 days.  I wasn't allowed to eat or
> drink ANYTHING by mouth, because tests "indicated" that I
> would aspirated EVERYTHING.  I was sent home with the feeding tube 
> still
> in me, whereupon I
> took it upon myself to begin eating normally without any dire
> consequences.  The residual effect of all this is that one of my 
> vocal
> cords is now paralysed and I don't know if I'll ever get it back.
>
> I'm curious to know if anyone else has encountered such ignorant 
> nonsense?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Fee
>
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