On December 17, 2009 I will be 67 years old, and I decided to enter cyber space and share some very important information with all of my friends, whom I have been out of touch with for over 20 years.
Last year in 2008, I did not know if I would be alive today to tell the ordeal I have gone through, and as a result of that, I vowed that what happened to me will not happen to another woman in the United States - by fraudulent medical pathology reports for surgery that were for financial gain only.
On March 7, 2008, I went to a doctor connected with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and at that meeting, after I had an ultrasound, I was told I had a FIBROID in my uterus the size of an orange and that it probably was not malignant. However, on March17th, the doctor called and told me that the pathology report said I was "positive" for cancer. I decided to get a second opinion at UCLA, and made sure through Medicare that it would be paid for.
On March 25th, 2008, I saw a gynecological oncologist at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, and I gave him my medical records that I had picked up from the doctor who was affiliated with Cedars-Sinai. It turns out that this was a blessing in disquise because it was the evidence I needed to prove that I did not have cancer, let alone, "a very rare cancer" which I would be told I had on June 10, 2008, after having undergone a radical hysterectomy - where I ended up in the UCLA ER Room twice as a result of the surgery, which was only performed 12 days prior on May 28, 2008.
Because I questioned whether I had a "very rare cancer" which my doctor wanted me to have chemotherapy for - for 4 to 5 months at 6 hours each session, I had my new primary care physician order a second opinion of the pathology at UCLA. Fortunately, I did that because it showed the Director of Clinical Laboratories was in fact, the same woman who interviewed me one week prior to my surgery on may 21, 2008, but she never introduced herself as a doctor, let alone the Director of Clinical Laboratories at UCLA. This took place in an office many blocks from her office, so I would never guess who she was. There was an alleged conspiracy in the making. I did not know until late 2009 that my Cancer Tumor Antigen 125 test (CT) was in the "normal range" one week before I had surgery. This should have set off alarms that I did not have cancer in my body...but it didn't. My "slides" from Cedars said I had Stage 3 Endometrial Cancer, and that was good enough for UCLA to proceed with major surgery.
As it turns out, my pathology from Cedars-Sinai was not my pathology at all. I do not have cancer and never did. But what Cedars did for me was the ULTRASOUND of the uterus, because it not only said I had a FIBROID condition that lead me to believe I had cancer - as was told to me by two different doctors from two different hospitals - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, but the sizes of the uterus and left ovary that shows they are not the same size from the two hospitals. I knew then, the pathology from UCLA was not from my body but from somebody else's.
I watched in the doctor's office as the ultrasound circled the fibroid, but could not watch the pathologist at UCLA do her testing. The alleged cancer I had was in a polyp and had not spread, but still the doctor at UCLA did a radical hysterectomy on me and wanted me (on three separate visits) to have chemotherapy, which I declined from day one.
This whole situation is now under investigation by the federal government and the reason I am writing this blog, so that women and men will question their pathology reports - especially if they are feeling healthy and their gut feeling tells them to check things out before undergoing surgery for any condition they are confronted with.
I will keep you informed as to how this whole thing turns out.
I have posted this picture on line of me and my two sons, Tony and Eric, taken in 1982, so that there is no misunderstanding as to who I am and to who this blog belongs to. I have been the victim of identity theft and I am not blonde and do not live in either Baltimore, Maryland or New Orleans, Louisiana.
Bye for now..
