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In article <adm.859880724@ccadfa>, adm@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (David Moss) wrote:
 >EShipp@tennet.com (Eleanor Shipp) writes:
 >
 >
 >>What do you mean we?.. My experience with cancer sufferers is that the pain 
 >>control is very limited and ultimately unsuccessful, leaving the patient in 
 >>equal agony or some sort of morphia induced coma.
 >
 >Did you see the 7:30 Report the night before the Andrews Bill vote ?
 >The old dude with terminal cancer interviewed seemed to tell a radically
 >different story Eleanor. Jan, who works in the field, also seems to
 >tell a different story.
 
No I speak from personal experience. Having watched someone die from cancer and 
seen the effects of so called pain relief, there is little the medical 
profession can do other than the above. Go to a cancer/aids hospice and sit with 
the terminally ill for a while. See the impotence of the medicos as they step up 
the morphine until the patient doesn't even know their own children.

 >>IMHO, part of the problem is the refusal of the medical profession to admit 
 >that 
 >
 >>a. They can do nothing to cure a disease
 >>b. They can do little to prevent suffering

 >I can tell you from personal experience that (b) is total bulls**t.
 >Kym's stats software may have noticed a slight dip in my posting
 >frequency slightly before the Andrews vote. After undergoing 3 hours
 >of microsurgery I found pethadine 100% effective in managing my pain
 >until nature set to work on the damage.

Terrific..... and when Nature is doing nothing but increasing the pain... what 
then?. Your little illness is nothing compared with the agony endured by the 
terminally ill.

 Contrary to what some in this
 >group would have us believe I was not drugged into a zombie, but I assure
 >you I would not have been able to endure sitting up to type without
 >chemical assistance. I doubt anyone out there in Internetland noticed
 >any difference. (You probably think I post _all_ my articles on drugs ;-)

So a few hours on pethadine and you know it all? try months as the pain gets 
worse and as your body starts to develop a tolerance. Feel your mind turn to 
slush as the Morphine levels begin to reach fatal levels, but it is only the 
pain that is keeping you alive.


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Eleanor Shipp
"There's only one thing worse than being talked
about, and that's not being talked about"..OW
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