I just had a very long talk with Carrie and to let everyone know she is hanging in there. I have spent numerous times trying to get her to go to a different ER to get help but now understand and share in her frustration in why she is not going to ER anymore, unless it is for fluids, as that is all that they help her with when she goes. She told me that she has tried everything to get the help she needs and is now waiting. She said that Dr. Farries and Dr. Nohr are aware of her condition and are working together in getting what she needs. If she heads to Medicine Hat to the ER it would be a waste of time right now. Dr. Nohr is working with Dr. Farries and knows that she is getting the test she needs. Carrie feels that she would be wasting her time and money going down there. Alberta health care does suck at times but there is not much Carrie can do now that she hasn't done already. Carrie speaks very highly of her forum family and is very grateful that her forum family has been so concerned. Right now she is waiting until the 15th for her CT scan and she said that until that time she has to keep on going for her family. I met Carrie a couple days after my surgery in the Red Deer hospital and immediately knew that she was one special girl. She speaks highly of everyone around her, she is always positive, she is a great mother, wife and friend. I wanted to reassure everyone on the forum that Carrie has done everything she possibly can to keep herself going and is aware that her health comes first. She is frusturated with the system and has hit a dead end everywhere she turns. She feels that waiting for this test is her best chance right now and that is why she isn't going to the ER and waiting. Right now she is at home with her family and just relaxing and going day by day. She has started to take pain killers so she said that she is quite groggy but the it is helping her manage the pain. She is getting some fluids and foods in as best she can. Carrie has kept tabs on me for the last six months and has called me to make sure that I was feeling okay and starting tomorrow I am going to be working with Carrie in Red Deer part time so it is my turn to keep tabs on her and keeping on her if she goes downhill at all before the 15th, but for right now I am going to just be there for her. I told Carrie that everyone has been waiting for her to have a response back and concerned on the forum and Carrie said she hasn't been on the computer all that much with everything that has been going on so I said I would let everyone know how she is doing.
Leah
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Surgery Nov 1/06
Dr. Farries
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