Thank you everyoen for your messages and kind words.. they will not be forgotten.. I wanted to let you know what happened with my mom because I know people have been asking about the legal issues i mentioned.. I dont want them to overshadow my mom at all, its just an amazing story, almost unbelievable

she died today at the age of 43 of lung cancer.. thanks to everyone for their support.. she lasted an entire week after so many misdaignoses..

We are actually going ot persue legal means in order to find out who made mistakes... Its a real complicated story but also unbelievable.. My mom was having headaches over a year ago and they, the HMO Kaiser, gave her pills for headaches and never bothered to do a family history.. If they would have then they would have found out that her father and both uncles on her fathers side died of cancer and at the same time her brother had cancer... My mom went by the doctors advice, never questioning it.. Later on as she couldnt eat in Sept and was having more headaches they simply attributed in to menopause.. Come thanksgiving her left had was numb and she couldnt move it.. They gave her a stress test and attributed it to carpal tunnel... She wanted them to do an MRI but they said it was expesnive and that through physical therapy it would heal up in a few weeks.. As the week went on her entire arm went numb but they refused to do anything else.. Finally a few weeks later in late Jan. when collapsed and when they took her to the hospital she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer of the lungs, which had spread to her brain causing her not to be able to use her arm.. This apparently had been going on for sometime and was the reason for her headaches...

They immedaitly, the HMO, put her on radiation for her brain in order to fight the tumor.. She was given 6 months to 2 years to live and was told this by the HMO case manager when my mom was alone in her room and drugged up on morphine.. Later on they decided to also fight the cancer and pushed forward with chemo.. Now they were doing full blasts of radation to her head and chest along with full dosage of chemo.. She immedailty lost 20lbs in 2 weeks because of this.. when we took her to the hosptial for a 2nd opinion they could not believe she was recieving that much radiation and believed that it was actually killing her.. Hearing this we stopped the chemo but it was too late, a week later she caught pnemonia, last saturday, and was put in the hospital..

As she was in the hospital, the doctors came up to my father and told him that he needed to make an immediate decision, between putting a tube down her throat or an oxygen mask.. These were the HMO doctors who told my father he had roughly 5 mins to make the decision because the doctor had to go elsewhere.. My father choose the mask so she was able to communicate, on the recommedations of the Kaiser HMO.. After a day on the mask we were told she had only hours to live because of the advanced cancer and that they were going to stop treatment on the pnemoniua because it was worthless... The days went on and they gave her oxygen, no one could belive that she was still alive.. They stopped giving her fluids and medicine for the radiation and decided it was no longer necessary to feed her..

As the week went on they took her vitals and EVERYTIME they did the vitals they were compelty normal as yours and mine except for the low oxygen level in her blood.. Later on the week the lung specialist in the hospital came over and told us that he could not believe she was still doing as well as she was based on the HMO's test results.. The lung specialist told us that she should be dead by now based on their results.. he did a test and it revealed that she actually was diong good and they should have put a tube down her throat to fight the pnemonia, but since they had not feed her in a week or givin her any fluids, her body was wasting away..

She lost 25 lbs this week and finally died today.. The hospitial doctors informed us that we should persue legal means and we plan on doing this once everything is over... We want no money, just an apology for everything that was done wrong.. I dont even know if anything can be done based on the Supreme Court ruling on suing HMO's 2 weeks ago..

Thanks again for everyones support.. if you have any suggestions just let me know