-Dear Amber:
You reached out to me and provided me with someone that understood completely and someone who served as a support system and source of knowledge and experience. That person would be you obviously. You taught me tolerance and strength, even though you probably don't know it. You also serve as an inspiration to me and a motivation. I feel like we're a team in the battle against life & disease & doctors. I never would have expected to find somebody who just GOT it. So I thank you for being that person, and I'm glad we have lunch together this year :)
-Dear Mrs. Donofrio:
You never gave up on me and wouldnt let me give up. You encouraged me, but most of all you understood me and never failed to be my advocate with teachers. Thank you for being so patient and accomodating and easing my mind and always helping me. You are a truly special person I hold in my heart; thank you for making my wasted time with illness worthwhile.
-To Ignorant, insensitive and close- minded Doctors-
Dear Dr. Pariq: Thanks alot for not giving me sufficient treatment & refusing to treat me further when I was still experiencing symptoms. Thank you for ruining my life. Asshole.
Dear Dr. Appel: Thank you for blaming my symptoms on a sinus infection and making me progressively worse on addictive sinus medications.
Dear Dr. Rosenblum: Thank you for trying to convince me that I don't have Lyme and that I can just live the rest of my life taking Percoset.
Dear Dr. Zemel: Thank you for calling me crazy, making me cry, convincing me that chronic Lyme doesn't exist, accuse me of lying about my symptoms, and deeming my mother psychotic and depressed but in denial about it.
Dear Dr. Oaklander: Thank you for convincing me that I don't have Lyme disease, for performing a painful skin biopsy on me in your office only for me to find out later it was of no benefit to me but just so you can collect more samples, and for ripping my family off after you said the visit would be "on your time".
Dear Dr. Cantor: Thank you for blaming my migraines &loss of vision on anxiety, not ordering me a CAT scan for those issues which are serious and are obv. from the Lyme and not "anxiety", telling me I have no reason to be angry or depressed, telling me I should pursue a different treatment instead of Lyme treatment (even thought I've made a marked improvement), telling me I should just go to school already, and telling me I have no cognitive problems.
Thank you all for not listening to me, for not believing in a very common and research supported disease, for doubting and victimzing the good doctors who do believe, for taking a pro active stand against me and Lyme disease, for making it only about money, for making me believe i am crazy, and for letting me suffer for years of my teenage of life I will never get back. Again I thank you all, you guys were great :)
-Dear Dr. Steven Bock(with love towards Veronica & Debbie also):
Thank you for listening to me, and cutting the crap and TREATING ME. Thank you for not making me wait any longer for sufficient treatment and thank you for not blaming everything on my "psychosis" or depression etc. Thank you for being so understanding and brave through all the criticism you and many other LLMDs face. Thank you for being pro active and using everything possible to get me better. Thank you for taking such good care of me and saving my life. I owe my 85-90% improvement/recovery to you. We have hit alot of bumps in the road ( as you've said "if there's a rock in the road, you car will go over it) but you haven't been wrong yet, and NEVER gave up on me. Because of that perseverence, I am getting my life back.
Thank you Dr. Bock, you mean so much to me.
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