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Interesting, especially the last paragraph. I'M HERE AFTER BEING OFF FOR YEARS. MAY NOT EVEN CONNECT. SINCE NOV..2020 a mild cough turned into a nightmare of wheezing coughing up stuff, losing my breath. ER TOOK SAMPLES AND AN XRAY
LUNGS OK, BUT INFLAMED. GAVE ME BREATH TREATMENTS, PILLS AND PRESCRIPTIONS.
W/NURSES ALONG THE WAY/ AND A FULL REPORT.
SHE HAD THE TRAINING AS YOU DESCRIBED.
AND HER OFFICE IS CLOSE BY. SHE DOES HOME VIDEO VISITS AS WELL. SHE DID EVERYTHING IN the hours I waited and sent me home. She is taking new patients. Amazing completion for solving.
Which could have sent me to another one or to others.
My name should start with a Gerry.for a female
I'm looking forward to the to the revision of this program. If my experience gets read at all. Hoping to hear about it.
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@jerry4info @hazelblumberg Our daughter-in-law is a nurse practitioner, and I concur with your assessment of them. My pcp told me yesterday that he will be retiring within the next twelve months, and finding a doctor who will agree to continue to prescribe the only pain medication that has done anything long term, morphine sulfate contin, may be difficult. And taking clonazepam for anxiety, along with a couple of antidepressants and an ongoing search for something that will slow down the progression of peripheral polyneuropathy. I take prednisone for that, and am taking Duloxetine, supposedly for the pain, but the pain just gets worse. At least, since I started taking Duloxetine, I've been doing things that were way overdue, because I actually feel like doing something. Being active does take my mind off the pain, until I quit for the day. Then it hits. I will certainly miss my doctor. He told me he'd ask around to see if there's a doctor willing to take me on. Maybe I'll be seeing a nurse practitioner. That would be fine with me.
Jim