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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT gmail.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Thunder God Vine and RA
  • Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:08:32 -0400

lol..one way or another, it all boils down to politics...

I need to vent...
A relative of mine is on hospice after a battle with cancer. A year of chemo put the cancer into remission, but because it was Stage IV, he underwent several additional months of a maintenance chemo drug. He did fairly well on chemo, but the maintenance drug was killer, literally. A side effect was intermittent GI bleeding, and that continues on even though it has been several months without any chemo drugs. For the last four months, malnutrition has been the enemy, not cancer. He got a few transfusions to replace the blood loss and just when it looked like everything would be okay, they dropped a bomb. Because the chemo drugs were not tolerated, the doctors said 'no more chemo or radiation.' (Cardiac and kidney issues, some of which predate the cancer diagnosis), and recommended hospice because "the cancer will return w/o that chemo drug".
I'm pissed because the 'system' has given up. Even though the cancer is in remission, EVERYONE gave up and called in hospice.
Before this decision was made, my relative could have tried alternative therapies. I even tried to put them in touch with Cancer Treatment Centers of America-the place you see on TV-but no...If he would just eat and drink, he could probably recover and live a few more years, at least, but he is someone who always hated doctors, did not see a doctor for 30 years, and then, once diagnosed, revered them and believed everything they said. Even with days or weeks left now, he still drinks glucerna shakes because they told him he had diabetes.
I'm beyond frustrated. Where is the common sense?






On 9/30/2010 4:13 PM, Rob wrote:
At 9/30/2010 12:40 PM,Padruig wrote:


It is not, in my opinion, the medical care available in the US that is the problem. Just like in any field, there are skilled people, and incompetent boobs. We got a good one, you got a boob. The problem is the freeloading on the system, the weight placed on it by people who have lived unhealthy lifestyles,expecting now that consequences are upon them, to be freed of them, and a sue happy society.

I love it! A pass along remark about a natural remedy turns into a political remark about people who are not living the correct way... The homestead list is still alive!




Rob
becida AT comcast.net
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