Accolades and Testimonials for Dr. Susser
Murray,
You have been, (perhaps unbeknownst to you) my internist and primary care physician. It has been thus far a remarkably successful collusion. I have always listened to though not always been able to need your counsel. At age 65 I take no medication other than supplements (some recommended others not) and suffer from no debilitating or life threatening ailments (although this may of course change in an instant). You are (believe the principal instigator of this state of affairs). Thank you.
You have been and will remain a wonderful doctor and a credit to your profession.
I.A.
January 22, 2009
Dr. Susser,
Thank you for your diligent and compassionate care and for your amicable and efficient staff.
I want you to know that I take your advice seriously and have stayed completely with your program except for the one-day lapse with Biaxin. I’m back on target now with a ½ dose per your recommendation.
I am appreciative of your wisdom and hope that I will soon return to excellent health like I’ve had in the past.
Sincerely,
A.D.
March 11, 2008
Dear Dr. Susser,
Every day now for quite some time I write this letter in my mind to you…as I send you heart felt blessings and gratitude.
As you know, Dr. Susser, when I was a kid, I’d trained at the Olympic Training Camps for swimming, I enjoyed many sports from skiing (Black Diamond), dancing, horseback riding (jump competitions).. and in my adulthood I continued many of these interests albeit in a more modified form. I’d always been healthy, never an operation, and my weight was always moderate to my height (5.6” about 125lbs). Healthy diet of no red meat and fresh foods.
Then, things just started to change, little by little at first. At one point I gained 16 pounds in 3 days. Suddenly I am sleeping 20 hours a day, and joint pain started to get worse and worse. My ankles were swollen to the size of grapefruit and my hands an wrists were immobile as well.
… it was scary, depressing; and the search for answers was an ordeal and an odyssey that brought my husband and me to your door. We visited many doctors to find our way to you.
I’d been given everything from water pills to flower remedies and massage… and it was getting worse faster and faster.
We went to a Lymphedema Clinic for my husband to learn how to help wrap compression stockings on my swollen ankles and legs. I couldn’t walk without them by then.
The nurse said this didn’t look like the lymphdema though. She was used to treating Lymphedema from former cancer patients. Their lymphedema usually was asymmetrical. I was swollen on both sides…. and so our search continued for answers.
Other doctors followed and I was tested for everything from MS to TB… and reading doctors notes later all they agreed on was that “the cold swelling and joint pain was not a good sign.”
Every doctor’s initial visit cost many hundreds of dollars each. This was out of pocket (and I was no longer well enough to work).
By then I no longer had feeling in my fingers. When I slept at night I had to sleep on my back with my arms to my sides and my legs straight or the circulation would stop. I had to go from standard blankets to an electric blanket because regular blankets were so heavy that I couldn’t move in bed at al beneath them. Even under the light electric blanket I was too weak to roll over.
My eyes couldn’t hold a focus anymore; so I couldn’t read. I was relegated to ‘listening’ to TV. That was all I could do.
Every time I do the smallest things now… the things that I once took totally for granted, I am reminded that all that and more was virtually once over for me not long ago. I thought I would never be able to do those things again.
When we first met, I was no longer able to walk without assistance. We’d picked out a walker with a chair because I couldn’t stand anymore for more than a few minutes at a time.
