Google-Why are you down when we are trying to beat Harry Reid?
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This morning I arose to start reading the news on Google and eventually make my first post as an author in this great blog that hopes to help us all beat Harry Reid in the 2010 Nevada Senate election. To my great disappointment, it was taking entirely too long to load any search phrase that I put into Google. I thought “oh no! I must have somehow acquired some spyware on my computer now! What a way to start the day. Sigh.” As I loaded up my favorite antispyware program, I decided to check my Gmail email account. The same slow response on Google was happening to my Gmail account. Just for the sake of argument, I went to Yahoo to try and pull up a search there. *POW* Yahoo loaded lightning fast. Back to Google. (((Hey Grandma! Get off the road! Pull over and let me pass! S…L…O…W…))). Now I knew I could close my antispyware program and do my morning searches on Yahoo. This has happened to me 2 times in the past few months. I know you may be thinking “2 times is not that much in the grand scheme of things,” but it’s GOOGLE and I believe Google should have wonderful uptime. I have now signed up for a Yahoo email address to replace my gmail address and I will start with Yahoo every morning before I head to my daily read news sources. I put my editorial before my actual article, so that you had the option to read the facts and ignore my extra chit-chat if you wanted to.
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Eric De La Cruz needs a heart transplant. Gov Gibbons said to contact Senator Harry Reid. Sen Reid has NOT responded to urgent messages left for him. Eric cannot wait a YEAR for his disability appeal. HE NEEDS A HEART NOW ! He cannot get evaluated without disability. ONLY REID can push to help get him his appeal…but he has done nothing. Not even a call back. Please see http://www.tinyurl.com/ericdelacruz
Please help send letters, email, phone calls to get Reid to CALL BACK.
Dear Senator Reid:
Thank you, in advance, for review of my email. It has come to my attention that a young man, Eric De La Cruz, age 27, who resides in your State of Nevada is in dire need of a heart transplant. He is dying. His sister, Veronica, is doing all she can to help her brother however, she is caught in the red-tape system in Nevada. Can you please review and do whatever is possible to help Eric De La Cruz get his needed heart? He needs Medicare Disability. The link below is a picture of Eric and Veronica and his story. I feel it important that this be personalized as nobody is more important to Eric’s cause right now…than you.
Eric has been turned down for the heart transplant list because he is on Nevada Medicaid, only accepted in your state and there are no transplant centers in Nevada. He needs to get to California under the Medicare Disability program. He has been rejected twice and the next appeals hearing is one year from today. CAN YOU HELP? Can you help escalate to get Eric De La Cruz to the forefront of the Medicare Disability committee so that his approval can be reviewed as he is going to die otherwise. 27 years old is far too young to die, Senator Reid.
Eric has Severe Dilated Cardiomyopathy with an EF of 15%. His kidneys are having trouble because of his heart. His creatinine levels are high, his blood pressure is very low and he keeps retaining fluid. The diuretic-type meds the doctors have him on are no longer working (Lasix, Dijoxin, Aldactone, Coreg, etc). He is currently on three different IV’s.
He will die without a transplant. Nobody is ready to let a 27 year old young man die due to red tape. Not his mother, nor his sister. PLEASE HELP.
I wanted to post an update to the above story. Senator Reid never did respond to Eric’s plight, however, Governor Gibbons did. Eric De La Cruz’s case was given an emergency hearing by a judge who granted his much needed disability. From that point it invariably qualified Eric to be evaluated for a heart transplant. During the evaluation process Eric turned very ill and was sent to a hospital in California. (The State of Nevada does not do heart transplants.) Eric invariably took a turn for the worse and had a VAD procedure done in which mechanical means began to beat his heart for him. He was very ill and in and out of consciousness while waiting for a donor heart. His sister, Veronica De La Cruz, worked diligently to bring awareness of the need for changes to the health care system. No patient as ill as Eric was should have had to be denied twice for disability during the course of 5 years of great illness. It is with sad news to report that Eric De La Cruz passed away July 4, 2009, at 2:30 p.m.. More can be learned of Eric’s plight at http://www.weloveeric.com
Let me be the first to extend my condolences for Eric and his family. You would think that such a young man would be among the strongest of candidates for an organ transplant. It is absolutely unconscionable for Senator Reid to let Veronica De La Cruz’s pleas for her brother’s life go unanswered. There are some dire changes that need to be made to our current health care system, and what happened to Eric De LA Cruz is a great example of failure on a colossal scale.
We need to hold the politicians responsible for their actions (or lack thereof). Harry Reid pays lip service to issues like the environment and healthcare, but then lets everyone down in favor of his own gain when the chips are down. Remember the new Mag Lev that was going to be built from Anaheim, CA to Las Vegas? Harry Reid was all for it until campaign support from Sig Rogich, the man building the competing train was availed to him.
I just hope that when Harry Reid is voting on health care reform back in Washington, he remembers the name Eric De La Cruz.
K. Flynn