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Doing the least to save your life...

Deetee said:
As a straw man argument she raised the Glasgow girl who had a mistaken radiotherapy overdose for her brain tumour as an example of bad orthodox medicine, which as we all know just treats "symptoms".
I suggested that tragic as it was that she got an overdose, at least the radiotherapy had cured the tumour, and what would she have preferred - Reiki or radiotherapy?
Her response was
Firstly I would say that I see the tumour as a symptom - not a cause of symptoms. Treating the tumour "effectively" with radio- or chemotherapy does not treat the underlying cause of the cancer.
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Go figure.
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What is it with these people, that they latch on to every report of an accident from real medicine as evidence that they can do something? This was news. Because it was an accident. The scores of people cured of their cancers successfully without any accidents every month don't make the news because they're routine!

Hey, if reiki ever cured anyone, ever, now that might be news!

OK, so radiotherapy (and chemotherapy and surgery) don't treat the cause of the cancer. Can she?

(I like the bit about the pamphlet on the benefits of oat bran!)

Rolfe.
 
Hey Fowlsound,

I just recently joined the forum. I know about zero about medicine, but am grateful for modern medicine and hope it continues to work for you. I reach your paper and it was powerful. Can we quote it freely?

(P.S., off topic, but I support stem cell research. I hope to live long enough to develop dementia.)
 
Rachel1031 said:
Hey Fowlsound,

I just recently joined the forum. I know about zero about medicine, but am grateful for modern medicine and hope it continues to work for you. I reach your paper and it was powerful. Can we quote it freely?

(P.S., off topic, but I support stem cell research. I hope to live long enough to develop dementia.)
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Quote all you like! Glad you liked it.



PS I agree with you.
 
Hi fowlsound,
Can you tell us a little more about the actual hardware? It looks like a Medtronic product.


This is a specialized field, but links a lot of different technical and medical disciplines to make it all happen. This short article describes what happens for a lot of semi-custom medical devices:

linky
 
Foulsound...

You were among the first members here to welcome me to the boards (technically, the 4th one... but I am sure you would have been the 1st if you weren't out late that night shaving wombats with a rusty razor. By the way, Tim, that reverse mohawk he gave you really looks good on you. No, seriously. Ick...):p

I want to offer you my most sincere hopes for a full and speedy recovery. Whenever you hear the Garth Brooks song "Friends in Low Places", think of me.:)

Big hugs,

Jen
 
fowlsound, I must add a note of support after reading your paper, this thread and some of your blog.

I thought you seemed a cool guy just from your posts here, but after finding out you are coping with all this so - what's the word for "gracefully with appropriate anger"? - I am blown away with respect.

Sorry to seem to gush, but please know you have significantly affected me, and it would seem, others. I will follow your progress with good wishes and confidence in your treatment.

Wondering if the sound this fowl makes when meeting sCAM practitioners is "Quack!!! Quack!!!"...
 
Wow. Thanks guys! lessee...

Kopji: I don't know who specifically made it. I can sure find out though. I was only told it was titanium. I know the bone graft to rebuild height was surrounded in a titnaium cage, and that is probably very similar to the products described in your link. I would not be surprised if it was Medtronic, though.

Orangutango: Thanks so much. :) Recovery at this point is really only watching to see it doesn't come back and maintaining the dull aches I get from time to time. I am walking without pain and without assistance, and I can run (the guys that mugged me for my laptop a few months ago got a good chase before they slipped away.) Thank you for your thoughts.

orphia nay: You made my day. Thank you. I have tried to maintain as positive as I can be, and yet still as expressive enough as to get the sCAM folks to know to leave me alone. I would like to think I was graceful, but there are many nights over the past few years that were filled with swearing and anger and tears. It gets easier to cope with cancer once you hit the remission phase, but I still fear a return of systemic myeloma. When that comes, rest assured I will place all my efforts into therapies that are proven to treat cancer. There are a couple new drugs like Revlimid and Velcade that are very promising. Multiple Myleoma is not as well documented and studied as other cancers. I will update my blog and this forum with new writing on my progress as it happens. For now, I am on a hiatus waiting for the next round of tests and bloodwork and bone marrow biopsies to check for recurrence.

You friend in battle of woo and cancer:

FS.
 
fowlsound said:
Wow. Thanks guys! lessee...
Kopji: I don't know who specifically made it. I can sure find out though. I was only told it was titanium. I know the bone graft to rebuild height was surrounded in a titnaium cage, and that is probably very similar to the products described in your link. I would not be surprised if it was Medtronic, though.
You friend in battle of woo and cancer:
FS.
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The technology in your spine is really amazing. Not as amazing as the real thing but still pretty good. Not everyone does well mentally with major surgery like this, so give yourself some major credit too. Not very many people feel comfortable enough about these things to post their cat scans on the internet. :)

I only ask because the company that made it might really like to hear from you. (your doc would know) Due to privacy laws they only know you by a case number. There are probably hundreds of people who worked on it as a project without ever hearing or seeing the end results of their effort.
 
FS,

I'm glad I saw this thread. And if I may quote a favorite line from your paper that bears repeating, "It is that insulting to ◊◊◊◊ on the front lawn of science’s solidly built brick house and then offer us shelter in a straw hut." Well said!

Best of luck to you in the future.
 
ObscureReferenceMan said:
FS,

I'm glad I saw this thread. And if I may quote a favorite line from your paper that bears repeating, "It is that insulting to ◊◊◊◊ on the front lawn of science’s solidly built brick house and then offer us shelter in a straw hut." Well said!

Best of luck to you in the future.
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Thank you sir! :)


That made my day...
 
Fowlsound, I don't want to pry, but it you told us how the last round of tests went, and what the current score is, I think I missed it. How's the lesion in your humerus?

Rolfe.
 
Rolfe said:
Fowlsound, I don't want to pry, but it you told us how the last round of tests went, and what the current score is, I think I missed it. How's the lesion in your humerus?

Rolfe.
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I update when applicable at fowlsound.com in my blog, but here's the news:

Last round of tests showed that the spot in my arm and shoulderblade had not grown, the bloodwork came back normal, and thebone marrow biopsy was clear. I was given a few months of parole until the next round of testing, coming up in a few weeks. I'll update more on that when I have info, but for now I'm just enjoying remission and not wasting any time.

:)
 
That is wonderful news! You go, girl!!!

Oooops... sorry, I was watching Ricky Lake while typing this...:blush: ;)

Seriously, that is great news, Foulsound. :)

Jen
 
Didn't Wellfed keep calling him "foulsmell"? Such a pleasant chap, can't think why he was banned....

Rolfe.
 
Rolfe said:
Didn't Wellfed keep calling him "foulsmell"? Such a pleasant chap, can't think why he was banned....

Rolfe.
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Actually, nicnac, huntster, mayday, love and Wellfed all enjoyed attemting a humorous insuly by mangling my moniker. It seems that mentally challenged trolls think they are quite clever with such idiocy.

Orangutango, however, is not a troll nor is she mentally challenged. I am sure her post was simply a mistype.
 
fowlsound said:
Actually, nicnac, huntster, mayday, love and Wellfed all enjoyed attemting a humorous insuly by mangling my moniker. It seems that mentally challenged trolls think they are quite clever with such idiocy.

Orangutango, however, is not a troll nor is she mentally challenged. I am sure her post was simply a mistype.
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:eek:

It was a mistype... I am soo embarassed. Perhaps you should rethink that part about me not being mentally challenged.:blush:
 
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