I had a spouse die for Hodgkin’s after lengthy chemo and radiation, seeing the suffering I have decided that if I ever get cancer it will run its course.
Besides the obvious discomfort to the treatment, we had to wheel chair into the blood letting rooms, parking blocks away to maneuver around the doctors Mercedes parked in their reserved spots next to the door. Cancer treatment is big business!
Sure for cancer like Hopkins remission rate is high, but Statistics show that even those who are "cured" will never live as long as life as expected for a healthily person. I know a nurse who works with breast cancer patients; she claims the woman will only live 15 years longer ave after treatment even when "cured".
If cancer is caught early, the treatment is better, and maybe not as harsh, but putting trust in the government or doctors in advanced cases, and no trust in God to take you home is just a mistake, and a travesty in this case where this young adult has no right over his own body and determination on what is left of his own life, and the parents who have no right to parent, something out of a new age Orwellian novel!
My post was in reply to another poster that equated chemotherapy to "medieval bloodletting" and labeled it as "evil".
Childhood Hodgkin’s disease (not adult Hodgkin’s disease as your spouse had) has an over 90% remission rate as opposed to a 100% mortality rate in 1906.
Whether or not the state should have forced chemotherapy on this child is one issue.
Claiming that chemotherapy is "evil" and equivalent to "medieval bloodletting" is a totally separate issue.
....parking blocks away to maneuver around the doctors Mercedes ......
I'm a doctor and I drive a 1994 Honda Accord. I'm frugal.
.....; she claims the woman will only live 15 years longer ave after treatment even when "cured"......
Given a choice of whether or not you puke your guts outs for a few months, would you rather spend the next 15 years living with your wife, children or grandchildren or would you rather have it been 15 years since your wife, children and grandchildren planted you in a six foot deep grave?