Daniel Hauser Returns Home
Tuesday May 26, 2009
Daniel Hauser and his mother Colleen have voluntarily returned home, after fleeing Minnesota following a court order requiring Daniel to get chemotherapy. The 12 year old suffers from a highly curable type of lymphoma. After previously receiving one round of chemo, the parents found the side effects too devastating and chose a treatment plan that consisted of vitamins, herbs, and water. Daniel's medical team reported medical negelct and the case went to court.
According to news reports, Daniel is at a local hospital where his condition is being evaluated. His chest x-ray last week showed that his tumor had grown since his parents decided to forgo the chemo.
There are so many different opinions on this case - many of you believe the government doesn't have the right to intervene, yet there are those who feel it is the responsibility of our judicial system to protect children like Daniel. During a hearing in court last week, Daniel stated he didn't want chemo. Do you think that his decision is biased by his parent's beliefs? Does a 12 year old have the maturity to make such a decision?
UPDATE May 26: The judge presiding over the case of Daniel Hauser had ordered the teen to undergo chemotherapy. According to news reports, the mother agrees that chemotherapy is the right treatment for her son and supports his prescribed treatment regimen. The oncologist will also be allowing appropriate, safe alternative treatments to be given in conjunction with chemotherapy. I am do thankful that this situation could be resolved for Daniel's sake. It's hard enough to fight cancer without this chaos, let alone with it. Battling cancer is not easy - it can be a daily roller coaster of ups and downs. I am proud of Daniel and his family for their courage to undergo treatment. I wish them strength, health, and happiness.
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According to news reports, Daniel is at a local hospital where his condition is being evaluated. His chest x-ray last week showed that his tumor had grown since his parents decided to forgo the chemo.
There are so many different opinions on this case - many of you believe the government doesn't have the right to intervene, yet there are those who feel it is the responsibility of our judicial system to protect children like Daniel. During a hearing in court last week, Daniel stated he didn't want chemo. Do you think that his decision is biased by his parent's beliefs? Does a 12 year old have the maturity to make such a decision?
UPDATE May 26: The judge presiding over the case of Daniel Hauser had ordered the teen to undergo chemotherapy. According to news reports, the mother agrees that chemotherapy is the right treatment for her son and supports his prescribed treatment regimen. The oncologist will also be allowing appropriate, safe alternative treatments to be given in conjunction with chemotherapy. I am do thankful that this situation could be resolved for Daniel's sake. It's hard enough to fight cancer without this chaos, let alone with it. Battling cancer is not easy - it can be a daily roller coaster of ups and downs. I am proud of Daniel and his family for their courage to undergo treatment. I wish them strength, health, and happiness.
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McGill Cancer Centre did 6 chemotherapy trials.
64 of 79 doctors would not consent to be in any trial containing Cisplatin – a common chemo drug.
58 of the 79 found that all the trials in question were unacceptable due to the ineffectiveness of chemotherapy & its unacceptably high degree of toxicity. Chemo only produces “temporary tumor shrinkage.”
Chemotherapy usually doesn’t cure cancer or extend life, & it really does not improve the quality of life either.
It does do this –
# Pain
# Nausea and vomiting
# Diarrhea or constipation
# Anemia
# Malnutrition
# Hair loss
# Memory loss
# Depression of the immune system, hence (potentially lethal) infections and sepsis
# Weight loss or gain
# Hemorrhage
# Secondary neoplasms
# Cardiotoxicity
# Hepatotoxicity
# Nephrotoxicity
# Ototoxicity
via http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/mom-of-teen-with-cancer-said-it-was-his-decision-to-flee-court-ordered-treatment-abc-news/
The fact that the mother and her son tried to flee and were forced to come back and accept the chemotherapy exposes the fact that unfortunately, our country is very rapidly throwing away its freedom.
Of course, please let me explain.
The founding fathers and the other people who established this great and wonderful nation certainly were sincere in wanting to make a place where everybody would be truly and fully free. So now that everyone here is fully free to do his own thing, everyone began to freely do his own thing. Now some of the people were quite successful in their own things that they were freely doing and they thus became bigger and bigger. Now I am not against anyone at all for being successful and becoming even very big! However, if they use the power and influence that they have from being big to destroy other people or to boss other people around, that is certainly wrong.
So again, this was set up as a free country. So everyone freely does their thing and some are successful, gaining power and influence. A problem though can arise: “What if one of these successfuls uses — or, more aptly MISUSES — its power and influence to destroy others and boss others around?”
This is exactly what happened with modern medicine. The modern medical — so called — establishment has had numerous apparent successes in relieving people of various ailments. With people being impressed with these marvels, the modern medical world experienced virtually unlimited extensive growth, prestige, and power. However, it shrewdly used its massive prestige and power to manipulate modern society so that it will be regarded as THE only legitimate source of health care. It did this by heavily vilifying and defaming all of the other time honored natural healing professions, which had been effectively healing people for all of human existence. It called them “quacks,” “voodoo doctors,” “snake oil salesmen,” “quackopractors,” and “bone crackers”!
So everyone had been taught and believed that any natural herb or the like was simply old fashioned unscientific superstition. The people of the government too fully swallowed up this propaganda. They undoubtedly also remembered that they had been elected to their positions only because of the huge endorsements and large donations given to them by the modern medical and pharmaceutical associations and corporations.
So under the guise of protecting the welfare of the country’s population, the government gladly gave the modern medical establishment its full backing with its iron arm of enforcement. As we are tragically witnessing right now with this case of Daniel Hauser, may The Lord spare him and protect him, every person must do and WILL DO whatever the holy holy holy modern medical masters say!
I believe it’s a bunch of crap that Daniel was required by the law to undergo chemo! I thought I lived in a free country!
My sister and her daughter are facing this same dilemma. My niece had a wilms tumor that was fully removed along with one of her kidneys. Yet, the team at UW Madison insist on doing radiation and chemo. They are not offering as a service or a form of treatment…they are insisting and threatening my sister that they will take legal action against her if she decides not to follow their “suggested” plan. Are they concerned for the welfare of my niece….NO, they’re after the research and the stats!!! HOW SAD…shame on all involved in cramming this type of treatment down someone’s throat at such a difficult time in their lives. How much time does chemo and radiation really buy…typically, just enough for the hospitals to get their stats!!!! Who’s best interest is in mind…. You decide!!