<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>JennifersHope</b></i>
I am so hoping this works.. Melissa, Jeanne and I have been trying to get together forever..... Every date that Melissa has given me, I have had to work....
The doctor's office from NYC called me today and asked me to do my talk again.. Every year I go and talk to several hundred Cornell med students who are about to graduate the following May. It is so much fun.. My doctor.... the one who finally dx me with CF does a case presentation.. we start with just my symptoms that I had.. and slowly we add more information to see if they can figure it out....
The med students get to ask me questions, and then they try to figure my DX out..
It ususally takes them a little while but then they eventually catch on..
I then give a talk to them about my horrible experiences I have had with doctors not treating me well because I didn't have insurance, .. how I was only tested for TB and HIV etc.... We also talk about my wicked experience that I went though before I was dx with Addison's diseaes.. my months of hospital stays that led up to it.. and how they almost killed me because they had sterotyped me..... long story.. but I did have my life ripped out from under me..Doing this talk always stirs up so much emotion in me but I am passionate that if I can get through to just one of these future doctors it is worth it to me...
I then do a cystic fibrosis awareness kind of thing... It is amazing.. I always cry and so do they...The whole point my doctor tries to make is that he was able to dx me by listening to me, not judging me and not being rushed out the door to the next patient..
The dr who DX me was a GI doctor who heard my cough and put my symptoms together.. he by listening to me was able to figure out in less then 5 minutes what was wrong with me.. and then sent me for the proper testing.. I had been to doctors for years and years before that with no one paying attention to me..
Part of the reason I decided to become a nurse is because I am very passionate about this issue now....This doctor is one of the most amazing doctors I have evey met.. and when ever I go back to his class to talk, it always makes me want to go work with him
anyway. all that to say the date is January 26th.. it will be mid morning till noon.. Mel and Jeanne and anyone else who lives close by.. want to meet for lunch afterwards or maybe come to hear the talk????
Let me know... I hope it works this time....
Jennifer</end quote></div>
ARE WE STILL ON FOR LUNCH? If so what time? Their website said not to make reservations for under 8 people. I am doing the train thing which includes the subway. Only the 2nd time in the subway ever & first by myself. Its only 1 week from today ladies!!!!!!!!!!!!