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North Central Illinois | Well, I never went to my family physician because it would have taken a week or more to get an appointment. I also knew that as soon as I mentioned shortness of breath and racing heart the nurse would have told me to go to the ER. I just bypassed all of that buy never calling my family doctor and going to the local ER. This is a small town of about 7000 people with a fairly small but decent hospital. After getting vital signs and ordering blood work and chest xrays it was only a matter of about an hour and a half before they knew I was in trouble. They informed me that there was little they could do for me there and immediately gave me a handful of choices about where I might want to go. We chose Peoria Illinois and within two and a half hours an ambulance had transported me there. By 9:00AM the following morning they did a bone marrow biopsy and by noon knew I had leukemia. By later that afternoon they knew what kind of leukemia I had and by that night they had laid out a course of treatment. I started my treatments the very next day and things just went on from there. I have no complaints with the way my care was handled. | |
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My body is more like a tractor...
