Tuesday, October 26, 2010 7:10 PM
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Elizabeth [Betsy] French
My adventure to the Yucatan was a changing point in my MS life. The MRV found my left Jugular 3X too small . The team of doctors in Merida ballooned my left Jugular 5 times, my right 3 times and my azygos once. I awoke to feet no longer purple with dark blue blotches, pale skin colored hands, I am still amazed at the improvements in my eye sight. My left ear is hearing sounds that I had forgotten were so loud. My balance is back! I can stand on one foot, not well yet. I have to rebuild the muscles needed to remain upright. the journey is wonderful. I have stopped using 90% of the pain meds I had lived with for the past 20 years. The nerve pains had faded to bearable. I had a new set of lenses made for my glasses and they are a lessening of prescription. My husband says my thoughts flow into print with much more clarity, without the scatterbrain thought patterns of 'cog-fog'..
I can walk on the beach and stroll through the forest. Quality.
All this and still I see the Canadian bureaucracy is stalled by fear?, greed? corruption? I've no idea. I do hear of discrimination to souls trapped within this MS cage. Souls are being denied care 'because' they have MS; they are told to go home. There some die. This is not right, compassionate or even moral. Where in Canada do we have room for this to be happening?
I am one of the lucky Canadian class who could afford to go our of home country for treatment. My heart aches for the thousands who there is no escape for. I am shamed by our wonderful Medical system that is so badly broken as to allow all this drama to happen for the benefit of the big drug companies and neurologists to the detriment of the Canadian souls plagued by MS. Come on Canada get moving on this. Paolo Zamboni is not to be ignored nor are the thoughts behind his findings.... these are being corroborated daily as more people seek quality of life.
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