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Squamous Cell Cancer of head and neck

Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: Dec 3, 2022 | Replies (29)

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You have to insist, she needs help Now, or find another Hospital, this is sad, & I get so angry..
Again you need a Social Worker there Angel's, I'm going to call mine tomorrow, & see if she can steer you where to go, we're in NJ/NY area, excellent Hospitals..so you try at your end & I'll try for you at my end, you said your in San Antonio correct, may I ask what Hospital your dealing with ?
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I just moved her from San Antonio to my home. We live right outside of Huntsville Texas. I have found her a PCP doctor that would be in our town that would give the referral to a oncologist that is in Huntsville Texas is about 28 miles from where I live still a whole lot closer than going to MD Anderson all the way in the Woodlands two of my friends actually use this doctor and gave me all this information and they have beaten the cancer. My niece Leanna, had already been diagnosed and she had no support system where she was I still am unsure of her living conditions when she was there and San Antonio I do know that not much was done in the way of anyone helping her filing for her food stamps to get the Medicaid to get the type of insurance that's through Medicaid she did get a County insurance in San Antonio and after she was diagnosed about 4 weeks or so she stopped eating and slept for 5 days not eating not drinking her roommate took her to an emergency room that the county Insurance she had would pay for not the same hospital that diagnosed her and they did a CAT scan of her head and chest she said the only thing that they even addressed about her cancer was that it hadn't spread to her lungs they never mentioned anything else about it didn't offer her any type of care even though she could not swallow had not been eating they said she would need to see a ear nose and throat doctor or if she wanted them to admit her she had the consent to a feeding tube so she declined they sent her home with Tylenol 3. And we are attacking this aggressively right trying to get the insurance trying to like I have everything else lined up Dr Wise so that we can get started it's just getting this insurance so this week is going to be the biggest week just trying to advance the wheels so to speak.

Thank you so much I will gladly take all the help I can get even if it's only a suggestion. So you mentioned getting a caseworker or a social worker how do I go about doing that? Is this something that's done at the hospital?