Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34234929-20180401073709/@comment-34234929-20180401165056

Hey Erin so sort of bad news I went to the surgeon and because of my clotting disorder I have literally lost entire circulatory systems inside my body. Certain major veins have completely clotted off and now are permanently gone and some arteries are partially clotted and that has caused huge and I do mean huge like the size of arteries, veins to develop to try and take the place of the veins I have list. Unfortunately it has caused the interior vena cava, the artery that goes to the heart to narrow and it has caused my heart to start enlarg and I've been told that there is no way any surgeon anywhere will do surgery on me because if they were to even Nick one of those veins not even an artery but one of those veins that there is no way they could save me. I would bleed out on the table before they could do anything, so they're just going to try and treat me symptomatically. They're going to send me to a research hospital to a cardiac vascular surgeon but they really don't know if there's anything he can do. The bad thing is I have spots in my lung that look like they are cancerous but again nobody's going to go in and biopsy them because of all the things that are happening internally and the pituitary tumor that I have is going to have to be treatef symptomatically to try and relieve some of the pressure on my eye, but we can't go in and cut it out and they also can't biopsy it to see if it's malignant or benign. I also have some spots in my lungs that have gotten bigger and have increased in number over the last 6 months and I'm not a smoker which is sort of weird but they can't biopsy my lungs to see if I have some sort of metastatic cancer or lung cancer. I can't do anything about the inferior vena cava and my heart enlarging so I was basically told they will send me to the research hospital but in the meantime you should probably get your business in order to get your will together,your living will, take care of things. It's a harsh reality and unfortunately is probably going to be a long and painful road. I don't know, I can't do anything to change it. At least I'm still here, for a while at least. Thank you for asking. The other thing is to go to the Mayo Clinic but it is for basically rich people and I'm definitely not rich. I'm just a disabled veteran living with my cats looking for a roommate because I can't afford the house I live in and I really have no friends or family so thank you for asking. It's very kind and it's nice to know that at least one person out there is concerned. I do have one friend who has me text her everyday because I told her I'm actually scared of dying in my sleep or bleeding in the house and nobody knowing and my cats ending up eating me. J Geez, I got to quit watching horror stories. Lol. But thank you for asking. It's nice to know that there's somebody else out there who who cares. Anyways I'm really just stuck, I mean barely can afford to pay the utilities so the Mayo clinic is really just a pipe dream. I won't drag you into it any further but thank you, your very kind. Christie