Hi catz,
We are all one big happy family here! Can you sticky this topic at the top of the Asian forum section also. Some of the guys may live in that area. Many Filipinas are nurses or health care workers and might be able to assist or find pan help.
Dave
Can I request that we keep this thread on a sticky for the foreseeable future so that pan de bono can post ongoing updates on his health situation..
He can just keep posting on this thread and let anyone know what he needs for help and we can keep tabs on this thread , on pan de bono and help him out..
Thanks oh sticky one who puts up sticky's..
catz i sent you an email, i think it went through , did you get it?
Hello friends,
Wow, what a week this has been for me. Please excuse the type O’s as I am weaker and on some heavy medications.
Ok, what a wacky week, here we go.
Starting Monday I had to go into the hospital and have surgery to put a port into my chest, it was not fun, it still aches 5 days later. However it was certainly easier that the things that have happened to me in the past 3 weeks. It was a new hospital that I went to only open 7 months, very modern, clean, friendly people and a good surgical staff, everything turned out ok. A far superior hospital over the place where I had the infection at.
I have been having a nurse come by 2 days a week to change bandages, then she told me it was changing to one day a week, but it never got to one day a week, now she calls me and tells me the insurance company told her it was cancelled, just like that it stopped today. However I called the nursing company she works for and they knew nothing about it? go figure..we are back at the old left hand has no clue what the right hand is doing. Is there any institution more screwed up that the medical institution, I think not? Well maybe the government is ,and insurance is, but medical must be right behind them.
I also applied with the state of AZ to get home health care some one to come in and help me 2 or3 days a week and I was denied it. after they put me through hell , I spent a whole day digging out forms for them and filled out 25 forms for them after all that they denied it. they said I made $78 dollars over their monthly income limit. Can you believe that? Who are these people ? who makes up these rules and designs these packages.? Havent they taken inflation into account? Haven’t they looked at the way gas prices are going up? Whats wrong with these people? Im telling you folks I am experiencing first hand how terribly terribly the system in this country, this state, is broken. Yes it is broken it is a huge mess and it is broken, it is not here to serve the american citizen. I believe the American medical system/insurance needs a full blown out revamping, it is a mess. It leaves people like me that are vulnerable stuck on the phone all day trying to get an answer to simple questions.
Now I am with out a nurse and with out assistance, I live alone and I am weak and sick from chemo,and radiation and I must do everything myself. I just don’t know how I am going to be able to do these things that must be done?
Well anyway I had my radiation on Tuesday and Wednesday,
I started my first chemo on Thursday and also on Friday, not pleasant, made me nausea and weak and I have a constant headache day and night.
They must really be bombarding me with chemo, besides the 4 hour sessions at the clinic everyday I must also where a pump that I take home and it pumps 24 hour chemo into my chest, that plus I have the 24/7 food being pumped into my small intestines. Its not a picnic folks, its tough.
My house is due for a cleaning really bad and chores are falling behind as I am just to weak to do any of that stuff.
I do want to thank some special people who came by this week and helped me. My sister who took me to the clinic on Tuesday and took me to walmart to pick up a few items I needed. Doc who took me to the clinic on Mon and Wed, thanks Doc. My very good friend Ruben and his wife Theresa who came over 2 or 3 times this week and kept me company and did some things around my house and Ruben even helped me change my bandages since I no longer have a nurse.
Well I am being bombarded with chemo. Around the clock and I am feeling the side effects with nausea and headaches and weakness, the raditation is still 5 days a week and is burning my throat to the point that the only thing I can swallow is ice and guess what im out of ice.
Well that’s about it here, another typical screwed up week dealing with insurance, medical and other problems.
I guess the only thing to do at this point since its Friday and a 3 day holiday weekend is try to relax in the recliner and try to forget all the problems best I can.
All of you have a good holiday week end and I will give you another weekly update next Friday.
If you have any questions or comments or suggestions for me concerning this update please feel free to email me.
Take care, and God Bless you all,
WS
Name: pan de bonoNotice that it says last active July 03. He hasn't actually posted since May 20, but it looks like he read something on one of the forums. It would be nice if someone on the board could get in contact with him so we would know what's up. Didn't calipro visit him once to help him out? Maybe he knows something.
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How many lives do you have, man?!? That is great news!! Your first battle was hard enough, and now you are winning the second battle too. You are a true inspiration. Keep up the good fight!
Maybe I should start calling you Pan de vidas nueves ;D
I know that it is against the rules here to post a quote from another site, but considering the subject matter of this post I am hoping that those rules will be overlooked at this moment.
yup im still here, still recoverying, gaining weight. its been a whole year for me fighting this cancer, i think im winning.
wms 3-2-09
I was off line for one week and didn't notice that. I don't know why SF no More didn't tell me that he already posted it when I asked his permission to post it here today but regardless it is better to have that post in this thread as well.
I was a personal friend of John's since 1996 and we spent a lot of time together in Colombia.
I called him about 2 weeks ago when he informed me that he needed an operation for a stomach hernia. I didn't know his passing or anything regarding the spinal cancer, heart attack until this evening.
I have many photos of the good times and I still have photos of his DJ car show in Phoenix that he sent to me a couple of years ago.
Zack: I still have the group photos that include John. However, I am unable to post them here as I would like as some of the men in the photos do not wish
to have their faces posted on a public forum due to personal reasons. Some of them worked for the U.S. government and have declined my request to post the photos.
Also, the photo posted on P-L's competitor site was provided by me and not Tinto. I sent the photo directly to the owner of the other site. Tinto obtained my email address through this site and is now claiming that he found the photo on some photo site. I'm not sure how he obtained my email add but I'm not happy about it.
Also, the photo posted on P-L's competitor site was provided by me and not Tinto. I sent the photo directly to the owner of the other site. Tinto obtained my email address through this site and is now claiming that he found the photo on some photo site. I'm not sure how he obtained my email add but I'm not happy about it.
Pontiac,
I did obtain your email address directly from this site. You provided it in one of your posts (http://www.planet-love.com/forum/index.php?topic=1962.msg17791#msg17791). I simply read your post history. The reason why I contacted you was to request that you send a photo to Steve after he mentioned that he would like to honor John by posting one of his photos on his web site. He asked that someone please send him one of John's photos since he didn't have one. Since I am a member of both sites I was aware of your post above mentioning that you had multiple photos of John. I then sent you and email putting you in touch with Steve.
I never claimed that I found John's photo on some web site. In fact, the only two people that knew that I was involved with Steve obtaining a photo of John was you and Steve. I never heard back from either of you but was glad to see a nice photo you sent Steve to honor John's memory.
If you are "not happy" about others obtaining your email address (even for a worthy cause like this) I would suggest that you not publicly list it on forums for all to read.
Let me get this straight your Mr. humbleness.
First, you search the archives for some message that I sent on May 20, 2007 so that you could contact me regarding someone you've have never knew? I did post my email back then when I was visiting Cali but how would you know where to specifically look? Did you just stumble upon my email address?
If you were simply looking for a photo to provide to another forum, why did yo find it necessary to re-post my email address here? Many gringos in Medellin know you as a backstaber and perhaps that's your true persona and why you have resorted in this instance by listing my email add 2 years after I inadvertently used it in one email 2 years ago to contact a friend.
How did you know that I was a friend of John's in the first place?
You've never posted previously regarding John so why now?
You've got a lot of nerve to reply with a reference to "a worthy cause".
In John's rememberance, I will not not insult his memory by substantiating your sneaky way of "helping" out.
However, I strongly suggest that you do not continue in this manner with this type of outlandish behavior. Grow up dude!