Now, she has several smaller tumors that require radiation treatment. Ruhoy did not die on the operating table, but her tumor had grown so large it could not be entirely removed. She needed surgery, but first, she rushed home, hugged her 11-year-old daughter and wrote her a letter to tell her goodbye. By the time she got it in 2015, a tennis ball-sized tumor was pushing her brain to one side. “I was told I knew too much, that I was working too hard, that I was stressed out, that I was anxious,” said Ilene Ruhoy, a 53-year-old neurologist from Seattle, who had head pain and pounding in her ears.ĭespite having a medical degree, Ruhoy said she struggled to get doctors to order a brain scan.
“Thank you very much to the people who support Operation Blessing,” added Guadalupe.This year, the Journal of the American Heart Association reported that women who visited emergency departments with chest pain waited 29 percent longer than men to be evaluated for possible heart attacks.Īn analysis of 981 emergency room visits showed that women with acute abdominal pain were up to 25 percent less likely than their male counterparts to be treated with powerful opioid painkillers.Īnother study showed that middle-aged women with chest pain and other symptoms of heart disease were twice as likely to be diagnosed with a mental illness compared with men who had the same symptoms. Thank you for helping me with the operation!” “I'm happy because I can do anything!” declared a happy Jose. Then Operation Blessing arranged for Jose and his mom to travel to the hospital, where we paid for the boy to receive free surgery. The surgery was a success and Jose was quickly running and playing without fear-and without pain.
“I have seen many mothers whose children have died and they suffer a lot so I can imagine the pain of a mother losing her child.” Jose lives in a remote community in Mexico. His parents finally saved enough to take him to a clinic. There a doctor told them Jose needed surgery. Without it, he said the condition could eventually lead to cancer. “I started crying,” said Guadalupe. “Maybe I would have died of sadness too,” said Guadalupe, his mom. I told my mom if I die, I am going to miss her."
It hurt so bad I thought I was going to die. Jose said when the pain happened at night, it was even worse. “At night I felt really sharp pains. “I told mom, ‘This lump is hurting me.’ And she said, ‘What lump?’ I said, ‘This one’ and showed her my stomach.” “One day I was playing with my cars and I felt a pain in my stomach,”Jose told us. 7-year-old Jose was born with a condition called cryptorchidism (an undescended testicle). It can cause severe pain in the lower abdomen.
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