After Cancer: Things are Okay

The good weather has led to the trees being weighted down by all the fruit that they are holding. It looks like it's going to be a good year for fruit and most importantly, wine.

I am still feeling quite good since my commencement of self medicating with the LT3. I can only hope that I can convince my doctors back in Canada to prescribe it for me when I get back, if indeed I decide to go back.

This brings me to a pet peeve of mine. My biggest peeve with the medical community, is doctor's refusal to prescribe medication (not narcotics) that makes the patient happier and more functional. I do believe that doctors are too concentrated on controlling the blood test results. Those "within normal range" blood test results usually come at the cost. In my case, it was the feeling of never ending doom that encapsulated my entire being with the indestructible steel bars of the mind. Their focus on blood test results almost resulted in my passage to that other place. I was that close to walking that road.

I believe that a doctor's duty is to make their patient well, if it is possible, and if everything that they have tried in the past isn't working, they should be willing to work with the patient and try something different. A doctor who solely focuses on the lab tests and dismisses the way the patient is feeling, is of no use to the patient. That is my opinion.

I think doctors should be more courageous with the treatment of their patients because to continue walking the same path which has hailed no results in the past, will most likely lead to the same destination of no results. This lack of open mindedness in the medical community needs to end.