Although I did not know it at the time I got a break. My “pain specialist” referred me to an addictionologist. I look back on it now and I realize that my doctor was in the process of justifying his lack of treatment or his fear to treat me. He wanted confirmation and was expecting the next specialist to be as “knowledgeable” as him in pain management and would also be afraid to have me as a patient. Why not? I was a drug addict after all. I did not count He made one mistake. He sent me to Dr. Jerry Rand.
I walk into Dr. Rand’s office and all that was said was “come on in, i’ll fix you” What was the biggest surprise was that he did. From the beginning I realized I had found an oxymoron; a doctor with a soul. He didnt care if i had official paperwork and that every request had made it all the way through the system. If he had to he made the phone calls, wrote letters, received tentative authorization. He talked to everyone from moronic insurance clerks to doctors in Texas working for the insurance company who had never even seen me. Little did I know we would enter another stage of treatment right then and there.
