GOOD FOR YOU AND JUST MAYBE ALOT OF US,MY BROTHER HAS ALREADY
BEEN BUGGING ME ABOUT MAYO AND CLEVELAND.NICE TO KNOW
HE CARES. bLESS YOU, AND TEXAS IS BIG EVEN ON A GOOD REAR. SUE

Liza Jane! Bout Time you got LUCKY! Overdue, maybe? Sounds like a reasonable, cautious approach, as long as it's not tooo cautious...you know what I mean. Guess no bronc riding for you in the near future, right?

Billye, there are lots of sites/flights such as this, mostly 'regional/local' tho that could get you to the docs you need....
http://www.patienttravel.org/index.html
I've learned of these from a cancer friend of mine who is in a 'trial' in NYC and gets to fly weekly, monthly etc. when needed for treatment and tests that have to be done THERE. It is essentially 'seats' on corporate jets that would go empty otherwise....they used to be limited to cancer patients only, but it seems they're expanding...found a site yesterday to that effect [will find and pm you]...only qualifier is that you understand that it could be a 'miss' if the corporation has other 'priorities' and that you be ambulatory...get up and down the steps of the plane w/o aid [aside from a cane and a hand] ...
All I can say is these guys are seeing the 'LIGHT'! But, I do have a bias here...

Liza Jane, I am really interested in how the 'forteo' is going to work [or not-heard mostly good things about it on thyroid and cancer boards-do not know myself?]...that may be next on my 'menu' of whatevers.....I mean, one can only chomp down soo many meds and supplements in a day...it seems as if my day is occupied with the 'timing and pacing' of the chomp/swallows totally! The total is over 15 pills PD, and, 4 are calciums, plus 2 vites...adds up. Miss some the whole thing goes klaphooey! Sometimes seems like overkill but at other times ultra-necessary? Drat, before PN I took 3 pills[meds daily] and nothing else! All tests were peachy all over...until...this.
Plain old 's to all for now. - j

It appears that there is a doctor specializing in this in our area. The doctor I am supposed to see in Mineral Metabolism at our local med school forwarded a name for Billye.

Cathie

Cathie,
I've emailed you about the doctor's name.

Billye

For others reading this, the doctor in question is an Associate Professor of Neuroradiology at our local med school.

I found when looking at options for aneurysm repair, that there are quite a number of things that are being done now in the field of Radiology, that have not been done previously.

The referral came from the Mineral Metabolism Division of the same school. Don't know if anyone out there is in our area, but am posting this in case. You can email me for name/contact and what details I have, if interested...

For example, I had a traumatic spinal tap, which was done at the bedside in the hospital in 1992. In the latter 90's, I had to have a repeat tap done in Radiology, so that the area punctured could be visualized and trauma avoided. I had no problems with the second tap, because he could see exactly where to insert the needle.

Cathie