My best friend died of ovarian cancer at age 42

This happened 4 years ago.

She wasn't famous like Patsy Ramsey. She also didn't have insurance and money like the Ramseys do.

She had been self-employed and insured through her husband's job. The marriage ended and she lost insurance coverage and could not afford to pay for it as her business was slow. She had various abdominal symptoms as early as November but waited to see a doctor until February when she could pay for the appointment up front. She was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer and she died a few months later. This week, 4 years ago.

Many of us go through a time in life when money is so tight we cannot afford medical care. One never knows if the symptoms point to something life threatening or not.

She should have gotten treatment earlier, and if there were universal health insurance she would have. Maybe she would have died anyway, or maybe she would have gotten 9 more years of life, like Patsy Ramsey did.

she was very, very lucky to have you for a bestfriend.

love never dies

Redstone

Would whatever they are planning to do about health care have saved Sonia?

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but with the best will in the world even the correct medical treatment at the right time may not have helped. I pal'd up with the one of girls I vaguely knew from dancing Feb last year when I found out she'd already had one op for the same thing a few months before. Inbetween her chemo sessions I used to take her out to eat a few times a week and also go walking to give her exercise. It came back with vengence late autumn and following yet another op she went back on chemo until they decided that wasn't doing any good. She died in March this year just before her first grandchild was born - she was 58 and so older than your friend.

Your friend was 3 years younger than my wife who died of a brain tumour early 1990 so I know exactly how it is to lose your best friend. Just focus on all of the happy times together and smile when you do so.

My sister died in her 30's of cancer and was between jobs and put off going to the doctor just like your friend. Fucking cancer and fucking selfish Republican's who won't have an honest debate and play politics with lives.

It just isn't right that in a country where scientific medicine is so good, a person who doesn't have insurance has such a hard time getting access to it. I don't think of my friend as having died of cancer, but as having died because of the health care system that wasn't available to her when she was at the most vulnerable point of her life. The same goes for your sister. We need to have access to health care on a consistent basis, job or no job, married or single, rich or poor.

This is one of my premier issues as a Democrat. I still can't believe, even after all the greed, corruption, propaganda, heartlessness thet I've witnessed with this President and in these times, it still shocks me that people in this country can be so stone cold.

even those of us with insurance because for profit insurance companies are in the business of maximizing profit, not delivering timely care without a fight.

I have just read Greg Palast's book, there are millions and millions spent on obselete weaponry
that we will never use, like an underwater submarine that has been
retrofitted to shoot torpedos with live sailers in them onto to the beach, this "modification"
only cost 400 million, the cost of the total submarine - 1.5 billion, we could easily have health care. Last year we spent approx. 450 billion on defense, I believe that the Soviet Union spends 19 billion.