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Cancer Help Equipment Supplied By Insurance So Far

19 October 2009 2 Comments
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Cancer Help Equipment Supplied By Insurance So Far

-People have written me that the health care seems a lot better here in the Netherlands than in the USA. We list the equipment and recourses available to show why.

–Specialists and helpers who set up support procedures in their help specialties, checking with the doctor and for approval and getting a prescriptions when needed.

–lung cancer hospital specialists that home doctors can always lift the phone to and get advice.

–Doctor from home practice of around five doctors who back each other up.

-raised toilet seat as padded one easier

Separate portable chair potty pooper for use anywhere in the house.

-extra wall hold if needed

-floor to ceiling strong pole to assist getting in and out of bed

-special mattress to go with special hospital bed with electric raise and adjust

-special overnight watchers who don’t do anything but report emergencies

-special sit cushions so don’t get pain or bed sores

-paper pants for on me all the time between showers and edema wraps

-special care helpers do practical work in house like preparing patient meals so as to take care of patient needs but relieve wife from doing so

-two weeks supply of vitamin drinks at a time that are prescription ordered to be part of insurance

-walker to hold on to for indoors and out-really helps balance to move around the house

-highly coordinating health care teams and organizations to get procedures done lowering stress.

-All supplied with public health insurance money

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  • Arthur B. Treadway said:

    Dear Strephon,

    Thanks for this entry. I’m pretty sure that the health care you are receiving in the Netherlands is vastly superior to what you would receive in most parts of the U.S. That doesn’t mean that it is perfect, that people don’t make mistakes or that the conventional mindset is not psychologically backwards, though. And it doesn’t mean that dying or nearly dying is easy, either.

    In an earlier but recent entry you seemed to be asking yourself for a criterion for “giving up”, but I don’t think that is a useful formulation. It’s too theoretical, as if you really were interested now in a mind game. What you are already doing in practice is what matters, taking experiences as they come, up and down, looking behind appearances as best you can, asking for help when you see you need it, using whatever inner resources you have available to keep on living as purposefully as you can, recognizing that probably you are dying but maybe you are not, in short, facing up to the the great mystery of living life here and now, even under the most trying of circumstances. It is a privilege to read your entries about it.

    Best wishes,
    Arthur

    # 19 October 2009 at 7:09 PM
  • Strephon (author) said:

    Arthur – trying to keep the record going coherently as long as I can.
    Dr. came to check my condition and changed the medication to to morphine a day. She defended her nurse heartily and said she was in charge and with a threat, if we can’t work together. At least that is what I heard. So the nurse and I discussed it out, but I could see from the nurses face she did not like my saying I lacked confidence in her for lying to me about having a cell and not having one. The doctor says she has one now. So we reconciled but from the nurse’s face I could see she was not happy though she tried to smile. So I wanted to have my confidence restored that I would not be hasseled in the future by any one of them. I said the patient comes first and they agreed to that. So you can feel the chess moves.
    Now I can feel I finally got up the phlegm has come up after all the hacking coughing going on in my throat. So many people coming in and and out on a day

    Dr. increased medication to two times a day morphine after consulting with someone. See how that goes now. Had next third shot of Iscador. The fearful thing is the constant coughing now. Seems like I am going down hill a bit day by day. I could not get married on Oct 19 just passed, so good to marry early on Sept 30. That’s lucky that worked.

    Equipment list let us see how it works here.

    Now maybe I put the last half of the book together from blog entries? Okey? I have half of it done full of blog entries.

    # 20 October 2009 at 3:52 PM

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