Fwd: [wiseweeds] Not AT,Not herbs, C-Span

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I'm forwarding this with permission from the author over to the list because

it has info on the Navarro case.

 

Victoria

 

>C M

>wiseweeds

>herb, " aromatherapy "

><aromatherapy, " wiseweeds " <wiseweeds >

>[wiseweeds] Not AT,Not herbs, C-Span

>Sat, 10 Jun 2000 10:32:49 -0400

>

>Late last night I watched the Senate hearings in regard to the Navarro

>family and their child's plight with the FDA rules to be treated by

>their parents choice of modality for cancer treatment.

>It made my hair curl, stomach turn and showed me ( if I did not know

>that already) how real badly our governmental system is screwed up.

>Although Dan Burton ® from Indiana has not been my favorite

>reprentative, he did a marvellous job in that hearing.

>That people are not marching in the streets and shouting from the

>rooftops about the fact that it is the insurance companies,

>pharmaceutical companies that are in bed with the FDA for profit,

>causing death and poisoning to untold 1000nds of people is beyond me....

>

>But than they are, silently and quietly switching to

>alternatives..aren't they?

>Paul Ianne sometimes uses strong words towards the allopathic regime

>and although I do know doctor's that are just as disgusted with the

>system and frustrated working in it, something has to change.

>As one doctor on the panel pointed out.

>He could have an elderly medicaire patient in one room and the

>government or insurance would pay for cancer treatment, chemo and all

>the toxic poisons gladly, but throw in some massage to calm the nerves

>or relax the persons mind, or to pay for acupuncture to relieve the pain

>of the chemical cocktails...no...Gladly they pay 50.000 or so for the so

>called standard procedures but not the $ 50.- to help along the spirit

>to help healing..

>One case last night..

>Their young son was diagnosed with a severe childhood braintumor, that

>has little chance of survival.They had surgery and were given the

>'standard' protocol to follow after wards. That protocol upon

>researching, showed that there was no survial rate from that chemical

>soup of toxins, but produced braindamage,stunted everything in the

>children and most of all within month multiple different cancers that

>lead to death.The family brought their son after surgery to Dr.B in

>HOuston who has had success with alternative treatment for those

>braincancers. But by regulation he was not allowed to treat the child

>unless it showed the tumor..well it had just been removed.

>The parents followed the standard procedure and after several month

>their child died, not of the original cancer but countless other cancers

>from t he standard toxic soup the child was given for treatment.

>If parents refuse the treatment, their parental rights can be terminated

>and Social Services will take over to ensure " the proper standard

>treatment " ..

>The Navarro family took their son outside the US, the child is doing

>fine.

>The parents have lost their jobs.home , business and could face

>prosecution taking their son back to the US..

>I am just your ordinary law abiding citizen but this makes me want to

>start a huge fight..

>I know a little bit about that parental rights thing..Years ago my 15

>year old son suffered from juvenile depression, he had several suicide

>attempts..and was in pain and misery, when I went for help I just found

>that if my son would be a juvenile delinquent ,drug addict or cut

>himself I could get help thorugh the maize of services and child

>pshychologists etc ( One within a 200 mile radius, wait formonth to get

>an appointment...)Every one knew about my son's pain, school,

>doctors,counsellors..no one could do a darn thing shortterm when there

>was a crisis, everyone just threw up their hands and said: He needs to

>be hospitalized...those things do not happen overnight( unless they cut

>their wrists, maybe, than they are patched up and told to get help..),

>also without the evalutions etc. a child can not be just dragged to a

>hospital, besides shortterm units do not exist within a 500 mile radius,

>longterm units have waiting lists and insurane pays only for so many

>days, irregardless if there has been success in treatment or not.

>It took 6 month of bitter misery for my son, never mind the upheavel in

>our family about this to finally get the paperwork together to find

>placement in a children's psychiatric unit.When the paperwork finally

>came together, I was told he immediately needed to be hospitalized, at

>that time my son had a short spurt of doing OK. When I brought him to

>the facility and asked questions during the admitting process as to his

>medication, education about his length of stay , schooling, I was cut

>very short and threatened that within 3 days they could take my parental

>rights away and do with him as they pleased.....that there were no other

>choices for him but to leave him there and that neither my input or

>concerns were wanted.

>We had run out of options and with a very heavy heart I left him at the

>institution, the next day after several direct utterings of him going to

>kill himself, he pulled it off, easily, hanged himself in a closet in

>his room with a belt he had made as an outpatient in another clinic,

>where he had been admitted for pouring gasoline over himself in an

>attempt the previuos summer.

>He was dead for over 2 hours before he was found by another child...

>The psychiatrist never flagged his chart for suicide and the

>psychologist ignored his pleas as beeing 'ideations'...

>This happened 16 years ago, sadly, if I had the same situation today

>nothing would have changed in regards to services..the same glob of

>strange laws, insurance requirements, no shortterm facilities are still

>there.Facilities that are there indiscriminatively mix juvenile

>deliquents with emotionally ill children.( Not that I do not think most

>juvenile delinquents are not emotionally ill, they just need different

>placement).A paperglob that takes on a life that has little to do with

>the care a patient needs and has all to do with the allmighty Dollar..of

>powerful lobbyist in Washington etc.

>Upon investigtion it came out that the head of the hospital had no

>training in dealing with adults, neither did the psychiatrist and the

>admitting PH.d from this institution did his dissertation on how to run

>a mental hospital economically in foodservice.This was an istitution run

>by the State, something I was not aware of, the Agency that was in

>charge of his treatment plan just told me to bring him there the next

>day, after his paperwork came through to be grateful that a place was

>found anywhere in the State for him..

>Enough of this..Get the Dan Burton's report when it comes out, ask for a

>transcript of the hearing, it will open your eyes...although I think

>most eyes are getting opened, but after what cost????

>My son was not a 'throw-away-kid', he was bright, well behaved and not a

>juvenile delinquent, he was too sensitive for this world.Not a day goes

>by that I do not miss him dearly and my mistrust into the allopatic care

>is not misplaced but justly so.

>I am off to the woods to hug a few trees and gather.

>If I have offended anyone by sending this to the list, I apologize.Most

>of us are on this list learning and sharing about different heathcures

>because we have encountered the allopathic jungle..

>C-M

 

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