I know I've said this loads before, but thanks so much for taking the time to be there for me - it means a hell of a lot. Thankyou again. If I can ever do anything to help any of you, please let me know and I will try my best.
I hope you don't mind my ranting here, but I'm so angry and upset and feel so useless.
My sister has spoken to the hospital today, and for anyone who doesn't live in the UK, this is how bad the system is: she was told today, over the phone, that she can't have chemotherapy.
Prior to any of all this happening, my sister began bleeding heavily when she was 7 months pregnant... she went into hospital after she collapsed, unable to walk, and lovely, clever my little niece who was just 2 at the time, called me saying "Mummy fell down and is asleep" - I freaked out and called the ambulance, as I live 25 miles away from her and don't drive. She was sent home despite the haemorrhage - they said there was nothing wrong with her and that she was just a whiner
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She was admitted to a hospital 20 miles away, out of desperation, and they told her that the placenta was dead, she had blood poisoning and that if they did not perform a caesearian immediately, she and the baby would be dead. They had to send her medical records back to the local hospital - which the local hospital promptly falsified, so that they could not be sued for negligence. Worthless little fuckers.
They wrote a letter to my sister's specialist doctor (who is treating her for free, because he is disgusted at the way she has been treated - if it wasn't for his help, we'd be seriously fucked) saying that she was a morphine addict and loads of other bullshit - and they took 5 months to come up with that one.
Just to add insult to injury - she had a mild heart attack a few months back, at the grand old age of 21. The specialist she is now seeing - who is actually a cardiologist -
says that it was the untreated haemorrhage that damaged her heart in the first place. She was actually going to be put forward for open heart surgery - then they discovered the cancer.
I know this all sounds unbelievable - I'm permanently praying that this will all end up to be some long and hideous nightmare; unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.
I have no faith in the so-called Healthcare system ,in this pathetic little island that I had the misfortune to be born and spend most of my life in so far. Fuck Britain to hell and back.
Sorry about the swearing and ranting - I just needed to let off steam - I have no idea how to deal with being told that my little sister is going to die from this shit. It hasn't sunk in yet because I've only had an hour of sleep in the last 36 hours, worked all day, and my brain is just refusing to accept anything.
We'll find out on the 23rd if there is any available treatment... I just keep wondering what the hell my family and I ever did to deserve this - not to mention my nieces who are 2 and a half, and 9 months respectively.