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Susan Adkisson
December 15, 2013
I had not heard, before now, that Dr.Fisher passed. My deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Many lives have been blessed at the hands of this most generous man. Mine was.
Though I never got the chance to thank him (he'd moved by end of my recovery), I've shared with others, many times over the years, the extraordinary person Dr. Fisher was. He was my friends doctor, who I'd been giving a ride to every other week. It was during one of her visits, when I mentioned something abnormal
happening, that he arranged for me a Mammogram. I wasn't even a patient of his, and because of my insurance, it was highly unlikely I would ever be. While at my friend's next appointment, Dr. Fisher asked if I could come in, too. That's when he told me I had Cancer. I didn't believe him...I even got angry, accused him of making a cruel mistake, that he'd been looking at the wrong test results. I told him he had the wrong files, because nobody in my family has ever had Cancer! Then, I stormed out of the building. That was on a Thursday, it was Halloween 1991. The next day, in shock and total dismay, I went back to his office. I don't really know what I was
thinking or planning to do, but he saw as I came through the door, and motioned me to follow him into another room. Once inside, he placed his hands upon my shoulders, sat me down and made me look him in the eyes. He said, "Susan, you are going to have to have a mastecotomy...you are going to have to do radiation therapy...and you may have to do chemotherapy. Because, Susan, you have cancer." I just hung my head down and said, "I know. I don't know what to do." He said, "I do." That was Friday, and on Monday I was in surgery having a Lumpectomy.
Dr. Fisher needed an assistant surgeon to do the Mastecomy, but could not find one that would take my insurance or do what he was doing... saving my life for free.
No, he wasn't my Doctor, he was my Miracle.
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