Sorry to hear about your dear friend, Mike, my condolences. Ernie
-----Original Message----- From: M. G. Devour [mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:37 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: CS>My friend with cancer... Hi all, Sad news, all. My best friend Richard passed away on Monday afternoon. He was in his mid-sixties. He was diagnosed 2 or 3 weeks back with colon cancer, going for a colonoscopy after bowel difficulties and bleeding. In addition, a CAT scan uncovered a blood clot in his groin that the doctors feared might break loose and kill him, so they hurried him into the hospital last week to implant a filter of some sort to prevent a clot making it to any vital organs. While recovering from that, another scan revealed some sort of spots on the liver. As his wife described it, they were pretty nasty looking things with tendrils. They then did a liver biopsy. Somewhere in here there was then an episode where his liver enzymes went screwy and they had to bring them back under control with some sort of medicine. Last Thursday they went in to do the colon resection and ended up finding a second tumor. This required an unplanned second laproscopic procedure and the removal of a additional segment of his large intestine. He never made it out of intensive care. He had abdominal bleeding that did not stop. His blood pressure remained low. After 4 days, no extraordinary measures being accepted, alert and comfortable, he passed away quietly with his wife and granddaughters around him. Family and many friends are rallying to support Barbara now. She's devastated, but is a strong person who will handle what comes. Although I'd love to be a fly on the wall of the doctors' M&M session for this case, I believe it's safe to say that they did the best they knew how with what they are allowed to do. I had gotten so far in studying information on alternative therapies as to be able to give Barb info on the Gerson therapy as a starting point, while I continued to dig into others. She was prepared to study everything she could get and to start locating resources, if we could have gotten him home. I'm grateful for that, at least. Another thing I'm grateful for is the incentive that drove my reading these last 2 or 3 weeks. I've relied on hearsay for the last 8 years. Now I've done first hand study that convinces me more than ever that our *first* recourse must be to well designed alternative cancer therapies. For all their care, I cannot help but equate the doctors' efforts to poking a hornet's nest with a stick -- repeatedly! Supremely unwise and ultimately unnecessary, given the dramatic effects to be had from aggressive nutritional and cleansing protocols, not to mention the non- invasive, non-toxic treatments possible with various electromedicine devices and other ideas that are kicking around here "on the fringe." The real crime is that such therapies are simply *NOT PERMITTED* to our medical professionals, thereby forcing the patient and their family to bear an extraordinary burden in research, procurement and caregiving in order to implement any of them. When asked, the lead doctor said that he would not oppose alternative approaches being used if the family wanted to attempt them. Unfortunately, there was finally no opportunity to test the extent of his cooperativeness. To you, my friends... THANK YOU for many solid leads, good information and testimonials, results both positive and negative. It all helped me to learn more, faster. I am still absorbing it all. Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
