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Post by moldessa on May 18, 2008 9:18:39 GMT -5
Thanks Dean for all the support you have shown in the last week, I found that to be one moving and thoughtful reply. Once again we will be outside the family courthouse Tuesday may 20 9 am We must find away to protect our future our children from the child stealing corrupt people, we must stand up together!
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Post by Dean Robinson on May 18, 2008 10:48:55 GMT -5
The right not to feel painLETTER TO THE EDITOR TheStar.com | comment | The right not to feel pain The right not to feel painwww.thestar.com/comment/article/425067May 14, 2008 04:30 AM Re:Sick boy's family in court today May 13An 11-year-old boy with leukemia should have the right to decide what type of treatment he receives – whether natural, conventional or zero intervention at all – because it's his body, blood and bone marrow at stake, not the Children's Aid Society's, hospital staff's or lawmakers'. Until they walk in his hospital slippers, they have no right to tread on his civil liberties where matters like this are concerned. Moreover, by age 11, a person is old enough to know what nausea, spinal pain, mouth sores, hair loss, being reduced to wearing diapers and having difficulty walking entail. Even with a bone marrow transplant, his survival rate is still only 50 per cent, so chemotherapy and radiation are not necessarily cure-alls and may prolong his suffering. If he's decided to allow the disease to take its natural course – minus any more pokes, prods, IVs, pills and hospital trips – he should be afforded that right, whether anyone agrees with it or not, because it's the quality, not quantity, of life that truly counts in the end. It's wrong for Big Brother to force this boy into treatment. It may also worsen his health by causing him and his family more unwanted stress. We are slowly becoming a police state. Jacqueline Verville, OttawaIf the Hamilton Children's Aid Society and other officials were really concerned about the best interests of this 11-year-old boy with leukemia, they would consider not only the medical treatment but the effect of that treatment, as well as the potential for its success. They would also consider the traumatic effect this is having on his entire family, who, as the main decision makers, have been supplanted by strangers who may be no more qualified to deal with this situation. While it is true that medical treatment – in this case chemotherapy – might be the best course medically speaking, it is not necessarily in the best interest of the patient as a whole. It does not address issues such as pain, which this young man has suffered, personal dignity and whether he has a reasonable chance at recovery. If they truly want to help this boy, they should assure him that modern science will be available to him should he desire to continue his fight, and support him in his decision, whatever that might be. That would truly be seeing to his best interests. Thomas G. Marquette, TorontoCAS had no choiceEditorial, May 13If an 11-year-old child tells a family court judge that he or she wants to live with one parent over the other, the court typically bows to the child's wishes. If an 11-year-old can make a decision that alters the reality of life for two adults, why can't this child decide not to continue a failed treatment, in conjunction with his parents? How is deciding whom to live with any less profound a decision than deciding on medical treatment? At least the boy in this case knows what's involved in chemotherapy, having lived through its failed treatment a first time. Is the Hamilton Children's Aid Society, doctor or judge going to guarantee to this child that chemo will be 100 per cent successful this time? I doubt it. I would say that in this child's case, refusing a second round of chemo is as informed a decision as anyone could make. Adult or child. Bill Pettersen, Brampton
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Post by Stunned123 on May 21, 2008 16:57:16 GMT -5
Just out of curosity, of the people posting here, how many are in the Hamilton area, and is anyone that posted here related to the child? If you feel uncomfortable answering the relation question, I understand. Do you know this family and boy personally, may be a better way to ask.
Stunned
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Post by stunned on May 21, 2008 17:01:31 GMT -5
Sorry not logged in above.
Also, did anyone posting in this thread attend the grape expectations gala?
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Post by moldessa on May 22, 2008 7:56:02 GMT -5
Yes to both of your questions
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