Turbo Cancer: Day 108 - September 27, 2022
Heart Doctor
On this day, last year, my mom wrote:
Saw heart doctor. Sweet. Phillipino?
Heart good. Can increase Lasix to three times a day if I want. Can take Lipitor (calcifications), or not. Should not push fluids too much. Low salt. If legs increase, increase protein.
Kristi doing better. So glad. Her grief will carry on. ❤️
‘WHY SHOULD I EVER FEEL ALONE”
Getting my mom out to appointments was a huge effort, and it was exhausting. Healing, of all kinds, occurs in a comfortable, restful environment, with one surrounded by family and friends. Dying should take place in such an environment, too.
This particular doctor’s visit was both a huge effort, and a complete waste of time.
This was a follow-up cardiology appointment. Several weeks earlier, my mom had been hospitalized, with congestive heart failure. The actual cause of her heart failure was still a mystery. Her heart was then, and remained thereafter, strong and healthy.
My mom had had fluid around her heart, and in her lungs. We had been told that this was due to edema. We had been told, in urgent care, that the fluid in my mom’s leg, which every other doctor had said had been lymphedema, was actually edema. The theory was that the edema had suddenly, dramatically, increased in volume. The fluid-storing capacity of my mom’s leg had been exceeded. As if a dam had broken, fluid travelled throughout her system, pooling around her organs, flowing all the way up to her heart and lungs. The name of this condition is hypervolemia. According to the doctors, its cause, in the case of my mom, was unknown.
The fluid was being controlled by Lasix, combined with a low-salt diet.
We were hoping for more clarity from the cardiologist.
He was sweet. He was cute and very friendly. He was likable.
He came into the room with a burst of energy. He spoke very quickly, said my mom’s heart looked good, prescribed Lipitor, and told her to keep up the good work.
I asked what had caused my mom’s edema.
He said he didn’t know.
Maybe it had something to do with salt.
Maybe it had something to do with protein.
Maybe it had something to do with the gravitational pull of the moon.
The doctor said that there was no way of knowing, with any certainty, the cause of my mom’s symptoms. He was certain of what didn’t cause it. He agreed with the oncologist: My mom’s edema, hypervolemia and congestive heart failure, definitely had nothing to do with vaccines, cancer or chemotherapy.
He said goodbye and began to scurry out the door when my mom stopped him. She said: “Wait. I don’t understand why I should take Lipitor. Is there something wrong with my cholesterol?”
He said that her cholesterol was perfect. He said that they prescribe Lipitor to all of their heart patients. He said that Lipitor would prevent arterial calcification, heart attack and stroke.
My mom said: “Do I have arterial calcification? Nobody has mentioned that before.”
He said: “No. Lipitor will prevent that.”
My mom said that she was taking too many pills already. She didn’t want to take more. Based on all of her test results, it was 99.99% assured that my mom would die of cancer, not calcification of the arteries.
He said: “I will give you the prescription and the information. You can choose. Take it if you want, or not.”
We didn’t need any more appointments. My mom’s heart was healthy. From the perspective of the heart doctor, she was healthy.
We were never given anything approximating a clear answer, much less an accurate medical explanation of why my mom had had congestive heart failure, in the first place. With so many other things to worry about, we stopped asking.
All of this makes my heart and brain heavy. But - the insights and truths lighten the heaviness.
Making the insensible make sense.
Just know I am on this writing journey with you. Every day I read it.
They give Lipitor to all their heart patients! Even the patient that is allergic to it!
This is certainly following the Drug Company and the 'guidance.'
Run, or if you are in a wheelchair all the better, roll out of there as fast as possible.
Enough! What is he doing, just giving a script for Lipitor, nothing else, nothing else!