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Todesurteil vom Arzt
Die Worte schienen ihr über die Lippen zu gehen, als wären sie einbetoniert : „Sie haben nur noch acht Monate zu leben.“ Ich konnte es zuerst nicht glauben, was ich gerade gehört habe. Es war, als ich hätte ich einen Alptraum im Wachzustand.
Der Arzt fuhr fort: “Sie werden eine Lebertransplantation und eine langwierige Medikamentenbehandlung benötigen. Was? Nachdem ich nach dem ersten Schock fast am Ende war, lehnte ich diese Option ab. Nein! Ich lehnte es ab, schon jetzt einer der nächsten Statistikfälle zu werden. Hepatitis C war verdammt nochmal im Begriff mir das letzte Blut aus meinen Adern zu ziehen und ich war nicht bereit dies zu akzeptieren.
Zu unserer Jugendzeit schienen wir uns alle auf gewisse Art überzeugen zu wollen, dass wir kugelsicher sind und uns solche Dinge „einfach nicht passieren würden“. Und nun war ich hier schon von Ärzten und Krankenschwestern umringt, die michanstarrten, als wäre ich eine Inschrift auf einem Grabsteins. Sachen wie diese erschüttern uns zutiefst. Ich war erschüttert.
Einer meiner stärksten Grundlegungen während meiner Genesung war meine Entschlossenheit. Ich wollte die Hoffnung nicht aufgeben, dass ich an jenem Tag irgendwie zurückgeschauen und denken würde: „Der Teufel hatte es auf mich abgesehen, aber er verfehlte sein Ziel“.
Wir haben alle täglich Entscheidungen im Leben zu treffen. Ich entschied mich zu leben und nicht jung zu sterben. Sie haben die gleiche Wahl. Menschen haben einen angeborenen Wunsch danach zu leben, auch wenn sie die unglaublichsten Sachen durchstehen. Ich nutzte diesen Wunsch, um meine Entschlossenheit damit anzutreiben, um dagegen zu kämpfen.
Erfahren Sie, was ich machte und wie es anging. Der Zweck dieses Buches ist, mit anderen genau diese Dinge zu teilen, die ich durchmachte und wie ich sie anging. Lösen Sie innerlich in Ihnen Etwas aus und nutzen Sie es um etwas Positives zu tun. Heute sind meine Ärzte erstaunt darüber, dass ich die Leber eines 20-jährigen habe.
In Memory of Johnny's Father
This picture was taken in 1997, when I went to my father's 50 Year Medical Reunion and assisted him in all of his activities. A little background on my father...he was born on 9 July 1912 in Muncie, Indiana. He attended local schools and after graduating from Muncie Central High he attended Kenyon College in Ohio, Rollins College in South Florida, and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and became an engineer. Later in his career, he graduated from Tulane Medical School during World War II and as a Naval Reserve officer he taught anatomy at Tulane for the war effort to train more doctors. He was a specialist in Tropical diseases and worked with the Hanson's disease clinic near New Orleans. Due to this interest he was part of the consortium who was working to develop antibiotics such as sulfa and penicillin which would change the treatment of many infections as well as Hanson's disease. It was paramount to the treatment of the war wounded as well.
Going to his reunion and meeting his class mates, I was associating with such medical legends as Drs. Alton Oscher, Leon Meier, Flora Finch, Bob Brown, Michael DeBakey, Dr. Herbert, Dr. F. Marascalco and many others. Dr. Michael de Bakey you may remember is the famous Houston Heart Surgeon who operated on Boris Yelson's heart; which was a very successful operation. Bob Brown is not only an excellent Doctor, but he also was one of the New York Yankee's better baseball players during 1948 and 1949. All are Tulane graduates in my Dad's class or they had Interned with him.
After graduation he worked with Dr. Oscher in the Touro Infirmary and was recognized as intern of the year and later was offered a position in the clinic that Dr. Oscher was starting in New Orleans after the war. Instead my father chose to go to Fort Walton Beach in Northwest Florida and open a general practice as that area had no medical care at the time. This was front-line medicine dealing with all manner of treatment outside his office including house calls. Working with the local Congressman Bob Sikes they established a small hospital and attracted more doctors to the area. He was the doctor of record and call when US presidents came to visit the many armed forces bases in the area. He sat on the Florida medical exam board as well as being the head of the State Board of Health for some time. In the early 1970s he retired from medical practice.
In Memory of Johnny's Mother
This picture was taken in 1955 when my Mom (Eugenia) and I were at our Family Reunion. Eugenia Annie Mae Rudulph Maxon 1917- 1973 was born on the 9th of June 1917 in Selma, Alabama to Burwell Blount Rudulph and his 2nd wife, Caroline Caffey Rudulph. This was his 7th daughter and the first child of Caroline. Three of his daughters and his 1st wife died of scarlet fever during the epidemic that spread across the country.
Eugenia grew up at Cloverdale, the family place in Lowdnes county, near Hayneville Alabama that had been in the family since 1834. She was sent to De Funiak Springs to Palmer High school, a part of the Chataqua Movement at the time. She graduated from Wheaton College in Chicago in June of 1938 with a degree in British Literature. Her classmate and good friend was to become the famous Billy Graham. She married Robert von Purucker Maxon at the First Baptist Church In Montgomery Alabama on 25 June 1938.
For several years in the early 1970's she had been battling different cancers. We were together in London in 1973 and while going through the subway turn-style she hit her right side that released toxins in her liver that took her life very shortly within days. I loved my mother very much, but I must say over and over again I am reminded throughout my whole life of the importance of good liver health.