I’m back & so is the melanoma! I was on these boards about 11 or so yrs ago…in Florida

I am surprised that the hospital social worker did not hook you up with Medicaid or obamacare at your last hospitalization . You should do that. In California, it is easy but I don't know about other states. 

Hi Cindy,

I am sorry for all you are dealing with.  I would certainly start my search for care at Moffitt.  Have been a patient there myself for the past 5 years.  I would flat out ask what options they have for indigent patients.  They have social workers and such there…the worst they can say is no.  Plus, you would get top notch melanoma care.  I bet they would work something out for you that would be cheaper than repeated ER visits as well as more profitable.

I am not opposed to all alternative therapies….but your mentioning Gerson scared me!  I've been dealing with melanoma since 2003 and I've watched too many dear ones die while on Gerson therapy!!  Additionally, it is expensive!  Here is a post that addresses it if you are interested: http://chaoticallypreciselifeloveandmelanoma.blogspot.com/2013/01/better-diet-advice-for-melanoma_13.html

Fingers crossed for you and really, really hoping that Moffitt will find a way to help you with services!!!  Hang in there.  Celeste

Hi Cindy,

I am sorry for all you are dealing with.  I would certainly start my search for care at Moffitt.  Have been a patient there myself for the past 5 years.  I would flat out ask what options they have for indigent patients.  They have social workers and such there…the worst they can say is no.  Plus, you would get top notch melanoma care.  I bet they would work something out for you that would be cheaper than repeated ER visits as well as more profitable.

I am not opposed to all alternative therapies….but your mentioning Gerson scared me!  I've been dealing with melanoma since 2003 and I've watched too many dear ones die while on Gerson therapy!!  Additionally, it is expensive!  Here is a post that addresses it if you are interested: http://chaoticallypreciselifeloveandmelanoma.blogspot.com/2013/01/better-diet-advice-for-melanoma_13.html

Fingers crossed for you and really, really hoping that Moffitt will find a way to help you with services!!!  Hang in there.  Celeste

I don't doubt people have died while on Gerson.  People have also died while on Yervoy or Opdivo or Keytruda.  There is no treatment out there that has a 100% success rate.

I don't doubt people have died while on Gerson.  People have also died while on Yervoy or Opdivo or Keytruda.  There is no treatment out there that has a 100% success rate.

Maggie, we all know that you are a defender of the quack Dr.s like Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez and now I guess Gerson. I would rather drink my Tim Hortons coffee in the morning than have it used as an enemas as Gonzalez once promoted , and now Dr. Linda Isaacs still pushes his BS. To base a cancer treatment on hair analysis sent to some remote research facilty in Louisianna is beyond me. Type quack, then his name and you get the whole story. When, I type my Oncologist name, I don't get a long history of quackery. Gonzalez based most of his teachings on some dentist named Kelly, who did cancer research and then misteriously disappeared after he couldn't get his work published. The history of Gonzalez reads more like a bad movie script than medical science.

Both Dr Kelley and Dr Gonzalez had thousands of documented biopsy proven last stage cancer patients who survived long after the standard survival time for their cancers.

In fact Dr G originally spent five years researching Kelleys patients in a bid to expose him as a quack and then after looking at all the medical reports and interviewing thosuands of patients he realised that Dr Kelley was onto something and when Dr Kelley retired Dr G stated using his therapies.

Both Dr G and Dr Isaacs are formally trained doctors so they are not quacks they just follow a treatment plan that you and many others dont understand but they get results and that is why thousands of people have used them.

Just remenber the standard treatment for late stage melanoma patients up until recently has been interferon and that is about it and it has been provem largely ineffective in treating cancer yet it is still used and offered..

Now who are the quacks still offering such a treatment that destroys quality of life with little or no benefit.

Both alternative treatments and mainstream treatments have their place and you should always do what is comfortable for yourself but both modalities have saved peoples lives as have combinations of both mainstream and alternative.

Both Dr Kelley and Dr Gonzalez had thousands of documented biopsy proven last stage cancer patients who survived long after the standard survival time for their cancers.

In fact Dr G originally spent five years researching Kelleys patients in a bid to expose him as a quack and then after looking at all the medical reports and interviewing thosuands of patients he realised that Dr Kelley was onto something and when Dr Kelley retired Dr G stated using his therapies.

Both Dr G and Dr Isaacs are formally trained doctors so they are not quacks they just follow a treatment plan that you and many others dont understand but they get results and that is why thousands of people have used them.

Just remenber the standard treatment for late stage melanoma patients up until recently has been interferon and that is about it and it has been provem largely ineffective in treating cancer yet it is still used and offered..

Now who are the quacks still offering such a treatment that destroys quality of life with little or no benefit.

Both alternative treatments and mainstream treatments have their place and you should always do what is comfortable for yourself but both modalities have saved peoples lives as have combinations of both mainstream and alternative.

Both Dr Kelley and Dr Gonzalez had thousands of documented biopsy proven last stage cancer patients who survived long after the standard survival time for their cancers.

In fact Dr G originally spent five years researching Kelleys patients in a bid to expose him as a quack and then after looking at all the medical reports and interviewing thosuands of patients he realised that Dr Kelley was onto something and when Dr Kelley retired Dr G stated using his therapies.

Both Dr G and Dr Isaacs are formally trained doctors so they are not quacks they just follow a treatment plan that you and many others dont understand but they get results and that is why thousands of people have used them.

Just remenber the standard treatment for late stage melanoma patients up until recently has been interferon and that is about it and it has been provem largely ineffective in treating cancer yet it is still used and offered..

Now who are the quacks still offering such a treatment that destroys quality of life with little or no benefit.

Both alternative treatments and mainstream treatments have their place and you should always do what is comfortable for yourself but both modalities have saved peoples lives as have combinations of both mainstream and alternative.

It's the quantity of long-term survivors of various advanced cancers that impressed me most about Dr. Gonzalez which is why I went to see him.  For all the negativity written about him, no one has refuted any of his published case studies of biopsy-proven long-term survival of advanced cancers.

I'm not as familiar with Gerson but having a treatment not work for everyone is not evidence that it doesn't work for some.  If it were, none of the current treatments would be considered successful.

It's the quantity of long-term survivors of various advanced cancers that impressed me most about Dr. Gonzalez which is why I went to see him.  For all the negativity written about him, no one has refuted any of his published case studies of biopsy-proven long-term survival of advanced cancers.

I'm not as familiar with Gerson but having a treatment not work for everyone is not evidence that it doesn't work for some.  If it were, none of the current treatments would be considered successful.

It's the quantity of long-term survivors of various advanced cancers that impressed me most about Dr. Gonzalez which is why I went to see him.  For all the negativity written about him, no one has refuted any of his published case studies of biopsy-proven long-term survival of advanced cancers.

I'm not as familiar with Gerson but having a treatment not work for everyone is not evidence that it doesn't work for some.  If it were, none of the current treatments would be considered successful.

Maggie, we all know that you are a defender of the quack Dr.s like Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez and now I guess Gerson. I would rather drink my Tim Hortons coffee in the morning than have it used as an enemas as Gonzalez once promoted , and now Dr. Linda Isaacs still pushes his BS. To base a cancer treatment on hair analysis sent to some remote research facilty in Louisianna is beyond me. Type quack, then his name and you get the whole story. When, I type my Oncologist name, I don't get a long history of quackery. Gonzalez based most of his teachings on some dentist named Kelly, who did cancer research and then misteriously disappeared after he couldn't get his work published. The history of Gonzalez reads more like a bad movie script than medical science.

Maggie, we all know that you are a defender of the quack Dr.s like Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez and now I guess Gerson. I would rather drink my Tim Hortons coffee in the morning than have it used as an enemas as Gonzalez once promoted , and now Dr. Linda Isaacs still pushes his BS. To base a cancer treatment on hair analysis sent to some remote research facilty in Louisianna is beyond me. Type quack, then his name and you get the whole story. When, I type my Oncologist name, I don't get a long history of quackery. Gonzalez based most of his teachings on some dentist named Kelly, who did cancer research and then misteriously disappeared after he couldn't get his work published. The history of Gonzalez reads more like a bad movie script than medical science.

I don't doubt people have died while on Gerson.  People have also died while on Yervoy or Opdivo or Keytruda.  There is no treatment out there that has a 100% success rate.

Hi Cindy,

I am sorry for all you are dealing with.  I would certainly start my search for care at Moffitt.  Have been a patient there myself for the past 5 years.  I would flat out ask what options they have for indigent patients.  They have social workers and such there…the worst they can say is no.  Plus, you would get top notch melanoma care.  I bet they would work something out for you that would be cheaper than repeated ER visits as well as more profitable.

I am not opposed to all alternative therapies….but your mentioning Gerson scared me!  I've been dealing with melanoma since 2003 and I've watched too many dear ones die while on Gerson therapy!!  Additionally, it is expensive!  Here is a post that addresses it if you are interested: http://chaoticallypreciselifeloveandmelanoma.blogspot.com/2013/01/better-diet-advice-for-melanoma_13.html

Fingers crossed for you and really, really hoping that Moffitt will find a way to help you with services!!!  Hang in there.  Celeste

I don't think that you have to be working to qualify for Obamacare.  As others have suggested, seek help from the hospital social workers.  

I don't think that you have to be working to qualify for Obamacare.  As others have suggested, seek help from the hospital social workers.  

I don't think that you have to be working to qualify for Obamacare.  As others have suggested, seek help from the hospital social workers.  

I am surprised that the hospital social worker did not hook you up with Medicaid or obamacare at your last hospitalization . You should do that. In California, it is easy but I don't know about other states. 

I am surprised that the hospital social worker did not hook you up with Medicaid or obamacare at your last hospitalization . You should do that. In California, it is easy but I don't know about other states. 

good luck and best wishes.

good luck and best wishes.

good luck and best wishes.

Just a thought, but you may be better off not going to an ER and having any joe blow operate on you–it may do more harm than good.  I would talk to a hospital social worker or two first, and take it from there.  

Just a thought, but you may be better off not going to an ER and having any joe blow operate on you–it may do more harm than good.  I would talk to a hospital social worker or two first, and take it from there.  

Just a thought, but you may be better off not going to an ER and having any joe blow operate on you–it may do more harm than good.  I would talk to a hospital social worker or two first, and take it from there.  

Good luck with your disability application.  If you don't mind posting, it would be interesting to know the process you have to go through, and whether it's approved, based on your initial application.  I've heard that if they deny you benefits (Social Security), you should appeal. 

Good luck with your disability application.  If you don't mind posting, it would be interesting to know the process you have to go through, and whether it's approved, based on your initial application.  I've heard that if they deny you benefits (Social Security), you should appeal. 

Good luck with your disability application.  If you don't mind posting, it would be interesting to know the process you have to go through, and whether it's approved, based on your initial application.  I've heard that if they deny you benefits (Social Security), you should appeal.