The Blame Game.

With this slide show, I want to show people what really can happen if you do wait too long to go to the doctor.  I covered both going to the doctor early with my mom’s account of her battle with thyroid cancer and the same with my friend being sent somewhere that could better assist him with his battle with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoblastic Lymphoma in my Webtext. In my podcast I talked about what the Centers for Disease Control and the Mayo clinic have said regarding early detection and prevention of cancer. I think I would open with the whole story of my friend, from his diagnosis to the last day I saw him alive, although he was clinically brain-dead. My first image would probably be one of the very few pictures that have me and him in it. Although it’s from Senior Night, it’s still probably one of, if not the best picture of us as I’m actually smiling in that picture. I think the point that has yet to be hammered home is the real consequences of waiting. I think some people hear these fancy terms like histoplasmosis and brush it off just like getting a flu shot. So many people go out and wander down paths in the woods and just think the “fresh air” made them sick. I can personally say I’ve gotten sick from playing football in my friend’s front yard and ending up having to run through the trees that were a boundary so I didn’t get pancaked by some of the bigger kids that were playing with us. After taking a closer look at the number of hospitals in Cook County, IL versus Lake County, IN, as well as looking at the difference in income, it doesn’t make sense but it does at the same time. Chicago is a metropolis with millions of people, thus the reason they have so many hospitals and teaching hospitals. Gary and Hammond are almost like an arm that is extending from Chicago to Indiana. Also, Cook County, IL is more densely populated that Lake County, IN. Thus, the more I looked into the differences between the 2 counties the more it made sense as to why the quality of care is higher in Cook County, IL, than in Lake County, IN. My conclusion is that as long as Lake County, IN is in essence second fiddle to Chicago, we will not have near the quality of care from a doctor or hospital in Lake County, IN than you can get from Cook County, IL.