originally posted by cofdq8

Actually I wasn't stating that it was an apples to apples comparison.  My point was that chemo is a poison, killing good and cancerous cells simultaneously....And...given that choice, would you choose to have that put into your childs body?

If that was the option that gave my child the best chance to LIVE, then yes, I would do it.

However, cancers are all different and not all chemos are the same.  I think people hear the word and assume that it will make the patient be horribly sick and lose their hair, but it all depends.  Elizabeth Edwards did her chemo on the campaign trail with her husband and said it was bearable.  My friend with breast cancer has had some side effects to her, but she is still able to work and function with it.

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Whoa, tough call. I have thought about myself or my mother or something having some type of disease and I would pass on all treatments.

Your child? Depends on chance of 100% recovery. If you could help them live a couple extra years, I probably would pass on treatment. If chance for completely ending the cancer, then I'd hvae to think about it.

But I really think you have no choice...........the government does step in if the right person hears of your story. The state may feel they have to protect the child from parents that refuse treatment. A very large portion of society is very confident in the CDC, FDA, etc. It is their God, per se.

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Okay here we go; I am a nurse and my mother has lupus and has had cancer. Now that being said the treatments for lupus, cancer, and organ transplant patients are quite similiar if not the exact same drugs depending upon what's being treated. Without these drugs my mother would be dead her organs would have failed and she would have died a horrible painful and slow death.. Not that I'm saying her life isn't painful and hard but she gets enjoyment out of it and has a very good chance of living out a normal life span. The side effects of a lot of these drugs are bad and she has to take medications just to counteract the side effects but she'd rather do that that then suffer massive multiple organ failure.

So that being said my mother NEEDS these drugs. My kids however do NOT need vaccinated, why? Because they have immune systems that work properly unlike my mother. If I go around jamming all loads of crap in their vains hoping that they won't get sick never using their immune system what's going to happen when something comes along that there is no magic shot for? Ontop of that my kids have never had a flu shot and have had the flu maybe twice in their lives. I work as a nurse and it's been 7 years since I've had the flu w/o ever once getting the shot. The only one of my kids who got their chcken pox shot was the only one to get it so that was an absolute waste.

So it's a question of need/don't need. If there was a good chance chemo was worth it I'd say yes. But if it was a matter of just prolonging their lives by say a few months then no it's not worth it.

To add to it I'm allergic to the majority of the vaccines. I get them and  I get deathly sick to the point of needing hospitalized. Last time I had my tetnus shot for my job they gave me medication to counteract the reaction, it didn't go well to say the least..  I managed to go all threw my childhood w/o any of these shots because the initial ones about killed me, I got chicken pox for a week was fine, never got measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, I had the flu a few times but nothing major... It wasn't until I was required to get the shots that I did and it went badly.  Do you honestly think I'm going to willingly subject myself to that again?

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