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    Posted November 20, 2009 by
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    Colorado Springs, Colorado
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    S.O.S. - Army, TRI CARE, TRI CARE West, CNN And Rest Of Media - Medical Desperation

     

    I am desperate, very desperate.  I am asking for the Army, TRI CARE, TRI CARE West, CNN, and the rest of the media to please investigate my current health care I have been receiveing up here for the past month.

     

    For the past 3-4 weeks I have been feeling very weak, tired, and fatigued.  My blood pressure goes from normal to very low.  At times I almost pass out.  I have chest pain that never really goes away. It is sometimes hard for me to hold my head up and I my hands shake.  I am not known to be a diabetic but do suffer from low blood sugar.

    Last week it was discovered my cholesterol was way too high to despite me being on Zocor.  On last Friday in Memorial Hospital's ER in Colorado Springs it was discovered I was slightly anemic and prescirbed Ferrous Sulfate.  On top of all of this, blood blisters have started forming where I had "Staph Antibiotic Resistant Infection on my right foot which is very swollen and discolored.  How do I know if if the staph has not come back.  I still have a blood clot in my right leg.

     

    It is said most of this is a "mental thing" but my cardiologist has said more than once all that is going on with me is real health issues.  Something is being overlooked, not enough or the right tests being done.  It appears to me I not getting as good health care as I should be getting.  Is it due to my doctors being forced to cut cost, at the cost of my health?  Does money mean more than my life?!  This is why I am praying the Army, TRI CARE, TRI CARE West, CNN, and the rest of the media will as soon as possible look into my current health care up  here at Fort Carson/Colorado Springs.  On my medical records I am listed as "Jasper Herrod" and not "Jay Herrod" though everyone calls me "Jay".  CNN and the rest of media has unlimited access to my medical records and my doctors have a hand written document saying so.  I will not go down (risk dying without a fight.

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