Many thanks for your kind reply, Cicero. I am so very glad that your husband is going to be alright!
I just got through printing out about a million pages on the liver that I found through Google. Just glancing thru briefly, I don't think it will make for happy reading.
My friend is Native American and got his diagnosis from the Indian Health Care Hospital in Shiprock. I trust that outfit as far as I can throw it. I'm sure there are some fine physicians in the Indian Health Care Service, but I haven't met any. It seems to be the last refuge of the incompetent. My ex-step father (MD) who couldn't put a band-aid on a patient without causing a life threatening infection used to work for them.
Its 200 miles to the nearest city of a decent size, and that's out of state. If my friend is forced to remain in state for treatment, the nearest city is 400 miles away. I have a feeling I am going to find out more about health care that I never wanted to know.
Trying to hang tough.
