Wow it has been such a long time since I've posted here. I've for the most part been able to move on with life leaving the JWs behind me.
But now I am being forced to deal with them again. My mom (JW) has been sick and discovered that she has a mass in her throat (lower part in her chest) that is making it hard for her to breath. The first problem has been that she left her job a while back to pioneer and does not have health insurance to pay for any medical expenses. Since she can't pay for them right away she has been avoiding going to the dr. for checkups and medical care. Finally she went last week to see a surgeon who told her that the mass MUST come up within two weeks so as to avoid causing her trachea to collapse. Plus, there is the chance that it is cancerous and must be biopsied. The mass has also caused her to choke a."nd I worry about that. When I spoke to her on Friday she seemed to understand the severity of it and was waiting to see if she was in the system to get help from the VA (a whole 'nother issue). I explained that if she couldn't get that worked out within a day or two that she will need to go to a normal hospital for the procedure. (I'm guessing she payed no attention to all of the charity hospitals that I looked up for her.)
So, today I called to check on her. She had just gotten back from a meeting and seemed pretty chipper. I asked about the progress of getting her scheduled for the procedure and she said that she was still working on it. Then........... she said it. "But brother so and so said maybe I should try such and such to help it. It is a natural medicine and those are always best." I am so angry! How dare he (used to be a C.O.) advise her medically????? We have no idea what she is dealing with and to try to treat it naturally and ignore the doctors is just ridiculous. I feel like calling him to tell him to stay away from my mother!
Last week another "brother" told her that doctors are all out for money and don't care at all about the patients. They are all "crooked". In her own words, "This world is just so wicked". Let me explain something. My mother lives in a state of paranoia. She thinks everyone is out to get her and everyone is "bad, just so bad". She is so far from reality it is scary to me and the JWs only increase her dillusions.
I just don't know what to do. This whole thing makes me feel sick.
Desi