Do you think these two facts may be related?

[Nyarlathotep]

From this article.

Apparently Pamela Anderson has been diagnosed with Hepatitis C. She says that she only has 10 years left to live.

"I think I've got a good 10 years left in me, which is sad, too. Maybe 15, if I'm lucky," Anderson tells Us Weekly magazine in a first-person story for the Nov. 3 issue.

So, what is the answer? Homeopathy, of course!

But Anderson isn't taking interferon, the injectable drug hepatitis patients often use. Her homeopathic doctor, Wendy Hewland, tells the magazine she "made a single remedy specifically for Pam" that Anderson is using as an alternative form of medicine.

Hmmmm.....Do you think the fact that she only has 10 years left to live and the fact that she is taking quack medicine might be related?

 

[Ed]

It's really silicone poisoning

 

[Rolfe]

She's going to go the way of Barry Sheene, and Paul Merton's wife, and so on. And when she does, the media will
(a) praise her "brave fight"
(b) attribute however many years she lives post diagnosis (even if it's a lot less than 10) to the power of her alternative healer.

Hey, when these predictions come true, do I get the million bucks?

Rolfe.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

She's going to go the way of Barry Sheene, and Paul Merton's wife, and so on. And when she does, the media will
(a) praise her "brave fight"
(b) attribute however many years she lives post diagnosis (even if it's a lot less than 10) to the power of her alternative healer.

Hey, when these predictions come true, do I get the million bucks?

Rolfe.

I am afraid your predictions are quite on the mark. If I were a celebrity who had some terminal illness and I announced that I planned to forgo regular medicine and planned to treat it with a diet of wheat grass and aromatherapy, I would be lauded as some sort of hero for not letting conventional medicine put nasty old chemicals into my body

 

[Zep]

I suspect that without reliable treatment she will have far less than 10 years, actually. Hep C is nasty that way.

BUT...

If she starts losing her "looks" (personally, I think she looks like a dawg already, but that's just me), then I suspect she will start to think twice about taking "scientific" medicine instead of the lawn clippings tea.

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

Hmmmm.....Do you think the fact that she only has 10 years left to live and the fact that she is taking quack medicine might be related?

Untreated hepatitis? Any doctors out there?

Would she last ten years?

 

[SquishyDave]

I found this

These retrospective studies confirm that the natural progression of chronic HCV is quite slow and in general, complications develop over decades, not years.

here

So it seems to be a slow process.