Steve McKenna

[redhead7]

STEVE, GODSPEED..............

[Dad 818]

Bill, let us know if Steve decides to go up to a REAL hospital. Kent Hospital sucks. Tell Steve he's in our thoughts and prayers. Best of luck with your surgery as well.

[Nebe]

I think Steve needs some bass talk tough love..
If hospitals were fishing spots, staying at kent right now would be like staying put at your favorite spot that your confident in, even though you know guys are bangin em a few miles down the road.. You wont leave because you dont know that other spot too well.. Steve I know you would move to that other spot. i know you would. Come on steve.. pack up the plug bag, and move on to the next spot before you loose the tide and the bass move on... You can read the water and you'll know where to cast

[big jay]

#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& - I'm a pharma rep and I can tell you for certain that the medical care at Kent really is second rate. They just don't attract or keep the better medical talent. They are fine and competent for the run of the mill stuff, but anything outside of the norms, and he really needs to go elsewhere.
Medicine is like anything else - when the facilities and the pay suck -- you're just not going to get the talent -- and Kent doesn't have either.
I hate to say it, but this is probably most evident in their Cardiology DPT -- I know your telling him this stuff already, but maybe if he sees enough messages telling him to move his butt, it will register.

Good luck Steve.

[Clogston29]

get him to boston, beth isreal or brigham, whatever it takes. my wife's mother refused to go to boston for cancer care (stuck with a local hospital) and my wife will regret not forcing her to go to boston forever. we're lucky enough to have some of the best hospitals and doctors in the world right here, gotta take advantage.

#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, my wife's a cardiac intensive care nurse at Beth Isreal. PM me if you want any specifics on what a hospital with more "tools" could offer that they can't were he is. I'll ask her to write something up. Maybe more convincing than coming from a bunch of fisherman. Some of the stories she tells me about the diagnosis that patients get from some of the local hospitals around here before they end up at BI are scary.

[eelman]

Saw Steve yesterday and the two clots have now broken up but he is still in the ICU...The prblem is that they are not telling him why this is going on, thats what needs to be figured out...Anyway I really laid into him about getting another opinion and how important that is..He did agree that he would, abviously he isnt going to do that right now but when he is released he swears to me he will seek out another opinion, He knows that this is dangerous and said to me that its hard to live knowing something that can kill you keeps forming in his body...So thats the update, I stop in and visit with him daily so I will keep you posted and thanks for the great advice, I have relayed all of it to him!

[Vogt]

Thanks Bill.

[vanstaal]

wishing him well and Gods speed to recover

[NIB]

It has to suck to have ur life in the hands of others..
I hope he is able to get the help he needs..
Thanks Bill for the update...

[Sea Dangles]

Steve is lucky to have a friend like you at this time Bill. Tell him to get healthy so I can finally take him to catch.

[nightfighter]

Good work, Bill. Getting him to say tha is a major step in the right direction. And good for Steve to agree to it too. It obviously has been difficult for him as well.

Brings up another thought... Is his PCP (primary care physician involved at this stage? Or is he solely in the hands of the local specialist? The specialist might be reluctant to pass him off.......