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Thank you I will remeber the 5 P's. Already started looking for other FTCA Lawyers here in Indiana and Kentucky area, I will start calling them tomorrow see if I can get any one to look at it. Also looking for IMO's here in this area. If nothing else if an IMO can give me peace of mind that is worth alot. Right now I still cannot let go of the Anger I have for the Doctors at VA that said nothing and did nothing when they first seen it. I just don't understand how people in this type of field can ignore or just dont care about the health of thier patients. My RA doctors thru VA have been wonderfull, no complaint here on them. But they are very caring professionals, most of them in the RA field went into this field because they either had a close family member who suffered or a close family friend.

Thank You, I have been going over my records again today and I see a pattern where I was in and out of the ER Dept and Clinic for bronchitist and sinus issues during that time frame. Maybe thier is a link there. I am just MAD AS HELL at them for not telling me back in spring of 2010 about this nodule, the ER doctor who was great, was stunned when I told him I was not aware of it. I am one of the lucky ones, and I thank God every day for that. I will get am IMO and let them go over all my records since the 1st incident when they failed to properly diagnois a bone infection in my right foot on my little toe, I only lost the meditarsal head on my little toe to it. I rack up huge medical bills from this incident as I knew something serious was going on (You could see the infection) so I went to an outside orthopedic surgeon, who did surgrey they same day he seen me and hospitalized me for 5 days. Went home with a pic line, and call VA to see if they would at least supply the med's and they refused because I was not diagnoised by them. I had a staph infection along with the bone infection. 3 weeks after the surgrey I went an seen the Va Ortho Doctor who I finally had an appointment with. I have cataracte surgrey coming up and I will not go thru VA. I just do not trust them anymore, and thats sad. Thank You for all your advice I greatly appricate it, I will see if I can locate an IMO and let them go over my med records.

In Nov 2011 went to VA ER department for bronchitis, while there they done a chest x-ray. The ER doctor informed me I had a nodule in my lung in the left upper lobe. I was informed it was on the x-rays done back in Feb and April of 2010. He could not believe I was not informed of this nodule, as they were supposed to put in a consult for it back in Feb and April of 2010. He ordered a CT Scan with contrast. for concern of cancer. A week later they did a bronch wash, the doctor performing this told me as he walked out the door that it was not cancerous and that I had a fungul infection. I was later told it could take up to 12 weeks to get all the results back. I also had one of the residents that told me the nodule on the x-ray was so small, that it was easily missed. Finally in Jan 2012 I had another CT Scan done and in Feb 2012 they schedule me with a surgeon, who discussed with me it was cancer and that they needed to do a lobe resection. He also advised me to get all my medical records right away, that was all he would say on that subject. I had already went to a surgeon outside of VA and had already been told it was cancerous and the surgrey was scheduled for Mar 2013. There was no way I was letting VA do the surgrey after they failed to inform me off the nodule in the first place. This is not the first incident I have had with VA. Had the surgrey done was very lucky it had not spread any farthur than the nodule, I have stage 1b lung cancer. I go in for my one year check up in April, so far all me check ups have came back cancer free. I have previously talked to a lawyer and they would not take the case as I was not stage 4 or 5 and it had not spread anywhere else. They advised me to file the SF 95 myself. Any advice would be greatly appriciated. Thank You Debbie