-------------- Original message from "Dianne France" 
<dianne_fra...@hotmail.com>: -------------- 


I have a friend that used to get gold injections for severe arthritis.  They no 
longer have gold for this use.  He said that his arthritis hasn't been as much 
under control since he had to give up the gold shots.

**** Your friend should be grateful that gold shots aren't being given to him 
anymore.  I also had a friend who was given gold shots for severe arthritis.  
Thirty or forty years of them killed her kidneys -- and last year she had to 
have a kidney transplant.  She was fortunate enough to find a donor -- 
otherwise she would have died.  MA