My Occupational Disease is finally diagnosed after 10 years

[mc486]

Hi Everyone,


As bad as the WCB is their Provincial government friends (Doctors) are just as bad. I worked at a combined sewer overflow plant in Toronto when I came down with Weils disease 10 years ago which destroyed half of my respiratory system and caused renal and other systemic damages and a well documented severe bacterial meningitis. The severe bacterial meningitis damaged my hypothalamus/ pituitary and this has caused me to sleep about 20 hours/day for the past ten years. My former work is the only type of exposure a person in Ontario can get this disease from. I have the diagnostic protocol for this disease from the CDC in Atlanta. I went through this as well as my medical evidence with an infectious disease doctor at Macmaster University Hospital. He was basically cornered even though he was well prepared. He knew I had every side road he could possibly jump to throw off a diagnoses covered. He gave up stating that he could not make a diagnosis as he was not the attending physician.

I have finally got a written diagnosis for the Weils Disease/Leptospiros is after 10 years. I have gotten a neurologist report documenting the facts from my CT and MRI that the reason for my 20 hour a day sleeping is from the damages caused by the Leptospirosis. My doctor - Singh of Burlington who is an honest doctor even filled out my disability tax forms so that I will not have to pay tax for the last ten years because of ongoing "tiredness do to Leptospirosis" . If you don't have the 'actual films', copies of tests, reports, analysis from your occupational disease and know exactly how to read the and what they mean you are cooked. Almost no doctor here in Ontario will help you. Dr Singh told me that this is due to the fact that all doctors in Canada work for there respective Provincial governments. It is against this 'conflict of interest' that they (the doctors) must go to diagnose you. Usually they will not. You must end up going to the United States for a diagnosis/report that may cost you over $10,000. This after our medical system we have in Ontario has bankrupted the economy. This to a tune of over 100 billion of debt as well as taken one of every two of your provincial tax dollars and it won't even lift a finger to help you now that you are injured. These people are not just useless. They are obstructive. They keep you from getting proper medical attention.

My other problem now is that as a result of having gone to Macmaster Hospital at the time and not being diagnosed or treated for this ongoing occupational Weils disease I am now dying from Non-Hodgkin' s Lymphoma. I was told by one of my doctors that this Weils Disease definitely causes non-Hodgkin' s. This non-Hodgkin' s hits people at an average of 67 years of age. Almost everyone who has it is well into there sixties. The exception to this is people who are exposed to a certain or prolonged (untreated) infectious disease. I was only 40 when it first showed up just a few years after I had Weils Disease. I have contacted the American Cancer Society about this and they said yes a prolonged infectious disease like Weils causes the Lymphatic system to go into overdrive allowing genetic mistakes to occur causing non-Hodgkin' s. I have much literature on the subject including a brochure from the Canadian Cancer Institute stating similar information.

Regards,

S.R. Harrison

[Marie]

Imagine, having to being properly diagnosed before one can move forward? 10 years. Good luck my friend, keep us updated.