Polycythemia Vera treatment in NW Fla seems to be not-so-good
My dad has Polycythemia Vera (PV). It’s a form of cancer basically. It is an abnormal increase in red blood cells due to excess production of the cells by the bone marrow. It usually strikes people in their 70s (my dad is 65), and is supposedly a “rare, chronic disease“. But my dad and two of his brothers have had it (maybe the other brother had it too, but he was captured in Vietnam and he got left there when the US pulled out).
So, my dad goes to doctors down in Pensacola FL who are complaining that the insurance my dad isn’t paying them enough. UGH!! I want to go smack someone.
I think they need to come up here to Dana Farber. My mom needs to learn how to talk to those doctors so they take her seriously. Y’all just don’t know how important class is to get services in that part of the country. I wish I could go for just one visit.
I just wish they would come up here for a little while. Before it gets cold and they wouldn’t want to come.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
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May 8th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Thanks Robert! I’ll make sure my mom sees it. I am really interested in finding out what caused this in my dad and his brothers.
It makes me very angry that they are finding an extremely high incidence of PV in Pennsylvania, where he is from. I think the incidence rate is probably higher - my dad was like many of the working poor in that region, he joined the military to survive. He’s in FLA now — but I just wonder if he and his brothers acquired PV from all the pollution in PA.
Then I wonder about myself and my siblings, and our children…