A year ago, Abby Lee Miller was living in a halfway house after serving time in a federal jail. She was getting ready to start her life again, but then she got devastating news. She had cancer. While she has gone public with her battle, she has not really talked about how she was diagnosed. That was something the tabloids did until today when she opened up about it on social media.
One year ago today ~ I underwent emergency surgery for an infection in my spine. This mass/tumor choking my spinal cord turned out to be Burkitt Lymphoma. I endured ten rounds of chemo therapy (each lasting 6 days with 4/ 24hr bags pumping poison into my body ending with a spinal tap in 3 spots, plus another shot of Chemo into my tailbone area up the spinal cord around my brain cavity) Ten times! Another spine surgery was needed & I have one more still to go. I struggled thru months of physical therapy to learn to sit up again, to crawl and maybe with a miracle someday I’ll walk. Why didn’t the ER Doctors on duty do their jobs? I came in twice with the same symptoms? Why didn’t somebody listen to me, the patient? I finally found the right team that’s why I lived to tell my story, I have a lot to say! Thank you to all wonderful top notch professionals who continue to help me heal. For those who missed it, misdiagnosed me, and the so called Federal “Doctor” who took me off medication cold turkey and the other ER “Doctor Hollywood” who told me to go home and take it easy for 10 days – STOP practicing! Please 🙏🏻
I cannot even imagine going through all of that. She needs to focus on getting better and not on the doctors who screwed up. Those doctors should read this and realize their mistake and make sure to never do it again. Doctors need to listen more and spend less time typing everything down. Maybe if they did, then fewer people would be misdiagnosed. I had a doctor not listen to me, so I went to another doctor who did and diagnosed me in 2 minutes. Needless to say, I stopped going to that first doctor.
