Ali, I have been saying it for days but I have no qualms in saying it again. I am sick to death about heating what the doctors want. Isnt it about time they listened to what their patients want? My poor BIL has been blind in one eye since he was attacked by a flock of seagulls when he was 5. The eye is currently infected and causing no end of pain with the pressure. A hard knock could cause it to rupture. But the Dr gave him drops. The Dr wants it there in case they have some miracle medical breakthrough and can change the eye. The Dr wants him to try the drops for 2 months - the same drops that stopped working years ago - thus he has to wait 2 more months before the pain he is in is taken seriously.

Not once though, did the Dr ask my BIL what HE wanted.

I understand trying to keep the optic nerve attached to the damaged eye just in case. It could be the difference to having full sight one day.... but the way they go on about how thats what they (the drs) want just make it sound like they want my BIL to be available to be a guinea pig to test it on.

This is everything that is wrong with the health system today. They stopped listening.

He sounds like a jerk, and I would be SO po'ed at being diagnosed in absentia. Get as many people on your side as you can.