SC - OT, OOP, Chemo (Was poison in peach pits)

[Elaine Koogler]

Having gone through two different chemo protocols, one for breast cancer, the
other for colon cancer, I can attest to the very serious side effects of
chemo...it is a dream of all of us who have gone through this that some day there
will be a treatment that will attack only the cancer cells rather than everything
in your body.  By the time I finished my last treatment of the breast cancer
treatment, I had lost half my hair (very lucky here as usually all is lost) and
was so tired all of the time that I couldn't even drive across town (and Prince
Frederick is tiny!!!) without falling asleep at the wheel.  And I was lucky!  I
didn't experience nearly all of the normal side effects.

That being said, even that is preferable to the alternative...the possible
recurrance of cancer and death.  I would do it again in a heartbeat!!!!!

Kiri

CorwynWdwd at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/28/2001 10:46:49 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> KallipygosRed at aol.com writes:
>
> > But I lost
> >  a friend who had cancer because of it. Swore that the treatment was making
> >  him feel better. Then got sick, was hospitalized at UA Hospital here, and
> >  they realized he was on Chemo treatment and hadn't been in for a while.
> They
> >
> >  gave him Chemo, he had a *massive* allergic reaction to the combo in his
> >  system, and passed away. Shortly thereafter the UA Hospital issued a
> warning
> >
> >  not to have any chemo if you had this treatment within the last 8 weeks.
>
> While I'm sorry for the loss of your friend, and please don't take what I'm
> about to say the wrong way. That said, the way you've told the story I'd say
> they killed him with the Chemo by assuming he wasn't doing anything else
> while he wasn't coming in for that.
>
> The whole idea of Chemo is to poison the cancer and hope that it dies before
> you do. Having seen the results (SEVERAL times), I won't say that they'll
> never get their hands on me, but it would take a lot of persuasion.
>
> Corwyn
>
> We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are
> modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has
> let loose among us. --I.A.R. Wylie
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