melissa42472

thank you,
i am in picayune, ms it is about and hour from gulfport, biloxi, and hattiesburg.
The dr. i seen was in hattiesburg and was highly recommended by my family dr. who also works with me and sees the pain i go through, he has been working with me at 2 diff hospitals since 2002 he knows the kind of person i am and told me to suck up my pride take time off of work and get the help i need.(he could see the pain in my face) he is scared for me and was very upset about the way the ortho treated me. he highly recommended this ortho and was shocked the way they treated me.

my family dr. helped me go through vocational rehab so they would pay for my dr.s and help me get to a point where i can work again, because i am not on workers comp or anything and dont have insurance.

Most people are forced to go through voc rehab and don't want to work, so as much as i don't want to say this because i work in the medical profession, but the fact of the matter is that dr.s are very highly opinionated when it comes to a young adult c/o pain, because there is so much abuse of the system and people addicted to pain medication.
a few days after all my tests the ortho's nurse called and said "there are some abnormalities but nothing he found is surgical so he can't help you."

I said "ok then can i set up an appoint to talk with him about what to do next" she told me "no, you are vocational rehab you get your results over the phone" i spoke to the rehab counselor and she was upset also she tried to call the office to get me an appoint. and they never called her back. my rehab counselor said she deals with this kind of situation daily and she could not even recommend someone who would treat me fairly.

so, i brought my reports in to the family dr. and he thinks something is compressing my spinal cord but didn't show up, he was shocked when i told him how they treated me.
if only dr. dinh had not moved to peoria,IL i would know what to do. he is such a great neurosurgeon and person, i called his office in IL and he remembered me, his nurse told me he would look at my reports and let me know what he thinks. but even if i get the money to go to peoria, voc rehab will only pay for a mississippi dr. at least thats what i think. Maybe i can ask them to pay for him since there are not many specialist that deal with thoracic disc injuries.

i dont know what to do ...i just am going on and on....all i know is i am a RN and i wanted to be a nurses since i was a little girl.. i graduated form charity hosp school of nursing which is one of the best nursing schools in the country and i was a RN at age 21 and got hurt 3 yrs later....i was off work for a few yrs..but nursing is my passion..i feel so much for pts. cause of what i have been through that i am the best nurse a pt can have. and mentally i am on top of the world when i work but physically it kills me..i work in a hospital on a med/surg and tele floor, i work ond 12 hr. shift and am usless at home the rest of the week . i have been doing that for a while now just one day a week and doing good finacially because i am very conservative with money. but i my legs wont let me walk like i should and the pain is unbearable....i will stop rattling now cause my back is killing me but thank you so much for reading my post.
IF ANYONE HAS BEEN TO A DR. (NEUROSURGEON)IN MS AND KNOW THEY WILL TREAT ME WITH RESPECT AND NOT STOP UNTIL THEY FIND MY PROBLEM PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
THERE ARE DR.S OUT THERE WITH GREAT CREDENTIALS BECAUSE THEY FIND OBVIOUS PROBLEMS AND FIX THEM , BUT THERE ARE VERY FEW DR.S WILLING TO WORK HARD TO REALLY HELP SOMEONE.
THANK YOU,
MELISSA