PaC Lyda Del Toro didn't care or help my mom at all. She is suffering from stage 4 metastatic breast cancer that spread to her rib 8 and spine and on the vertebrae on the bone. My mom has had it now for two years. The first year she had it, my mom didn't know it. She was always in a lot of pain and her legs and feet were swollen on the left side and she was concerned about it so she went to her medical appointments with PAC Lyda. Lyda said that my moms swelling was normal and the pain would go away. My mom kept going back to see Lyda for 1 year trying to get help because her leg and feet were still swollen. Lyda did not know what to do and she just didn't care, I could tell on Lyda's face was cold. Lyda just didn't give a damn. My mom went to the emergency room so many times in that year. Finally a ER doctor at Queen of the valley in West Covina gave her water pills to make the swelling go down. The ER doctor even asked my mom why didn't her primary health doctor prescribe her the pills. Lyda didn't even know to prescribe my mom water pills to try to help her. The ER doctor said that Lyda not knowing about water pills is ridiculous and that every doctor and even regular people know about water pills. So my mom went back to Lyda and said she was prescribed water pills and that's when Lyda started prescribing them to my mom. Couldn't Lyda have thought to send my mom to run a few tests to find out why her body was swelling. If Lyda would have done that for my mom, she wouldn't have stage 4 cancer right now. Swollen body parts are never normal, and testing should be done to find out what is wrong. Lyda still didn't send my mom got testing and instead she sent my mom for physical therapy to help her with her weak and swollen leg. My mom had cancer and Lyda sent her to physical therapy. That just wasted my moms precious time. Lyda said the swelling on my moms leg and feet were normal and also my mom couldn't even walk 2 feet without being in severe pain. The medical assistants were so in humane to my mom. Because my mom was a few minutes late for her appointment, they turned her away, they told her to go away and make a new appointment. The new appointments were always 1 1/2 month away. Lyda rejected my mom because she was busy with others, probably treating patients with mild coughs and runny noses. My poor mom, she couldn't even walk and she was turned away. It was so bad that she was in pending paralysis. Lyda gave up on my mom. My mom finally asked Lyda if she could send her to a doctor that could help her with her pain because she was in severe pain. My mom finally saw a real practicing doctor. His name is Dr. Sawiris and he is a pain management doctor. Dr.Sawiris is such amazing doctor and he cared for my mom a lot. He treated her well. He was so kind to her. My mom explained to him that she was in a lot of pain the first day she saw him and she also told him how much she struggled with Lyda. He just could believe that she couldn't even care for my mom after 20 years of going to appointments with Lyda. Dr. Sawiris told my mom, "well this is ridiculous, swelling on your body isn't normal" and he said, "I have the power to send you for testing ", and he did send my mom for all the tests she needed at Casa Colina in Pomona. That's when they discovered the cancer in my moms body. The swelling in her leg was because the cancer was pushing on her spine and the nerves and that affected her legs. My mom got radiation from Dr. Thropay, another wonderful doctor. Radiation saved my mo from becoming paralyzed from the cancer pushing on her spine. Dr. Reynolds is another wonderful doctor, he's been treating and taking care of my mom. Dr.Reynolds runs testing on my mom very often and before each treatment. Dr.Sawiris, Dr.Thropay and Dr.Reynolds were all humane to my mom, they are all amazing and kind doctors who run the proper tests on my mom and who take the time to sit down and talk to her and explain to her what treatment will be done and what is going' to happen.
If Lyda would have known what to do, and if she would have tried to help my mom, if Lyda would have simply cared, then my mom would have been able to have treatment 1 year sooner, and she wouldn't be so advanced in her cancer now
Thank you to the doctors that helped and actually cared about my mom. Dr.Sawiris,Dr.Thropay, Dr.Reynolds, the doctors at the ER at Queen of the Valley in West Covina and everyone in the medical offices and hospitals who were kind to my mom. read more