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Indigoblue
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    10/31/09 at 05:11 PMReply with quote#5

Thank you, Constantine, Calico, and ETF.

This is a double-trouble topic regarding anyone who has experienced Radiation Treatments for Cancer.  I was never given a list of "bewares", or told to avoid CAT Scans, PET Scans, MRI'S, X-rays, or the sunshine between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.   Are we  supposed to figure this nonsense out for ourselves?  Are "all physicians" aware of the dangers?  I always ask, jokingly, "Will I glow in the dark after having radio-active crud injected, along with being exposed to high levels of radiation...Geiger counter, please?"  I think I may purchase one, just to see if my hunch is right.  Has anyone ever taken a Geiger Counter into a Radiation or X-ray Department, usually located in a basement or an area (seems like),  miles away? 

The generic response from the Radiation Technicians is always..."perfectly safe"...what about people with asthma, broken bones, head injuries?  This stuff, radiation, is it permanently "there", in our tissues, organs, etc.? 

I am uncertain about my current Oncologist's negligence in providing scans of any kind.  He knows more than he's saying, and perhaps agrees with Dr. Mohammad Jahanzeb, why bother with anyone who is likely going to drop dead, anyway?  Sometimes, after all, the tests, treatment, and amateur foolery in giving hope & treatments while realistically knowing there is nothing ... is truly worse than the disease...Cancer, Breast Cancer...

Personally, at this moment, I think the cancer is everywhere, but no tests have been performed to determine if it "is or isn't"; not even a blood test...makes me feel a little suspicious, that this world-renowned Oncologist in Triple Negative Disease, particularly, definitely knows a heck of a lot more than he is willing to tell...me, his patient, who is currently annoyed and impatient...at first thinking, maybe he was protecting me from radio-active rays...ha, ha, ha!  If I die, it won't affect the ratio or data on the Clinical Trials...it's all about configuring the end results of these so-called Clinical Trials...isn't it?  "so-what? " regarding the uncensored idiots like me, and "why bother?" giving hope or testing for metastasis, when a patient is technically "doomed"?

Sally sells seashells by the seashore...and doesn't care if they are toxic...

A similar incident, regarding "radio-active" Cat Scan news,  happened ten years ago in the hospital where I previously had my surgery for Breast Cancer.  Ultimately, it was beneficial to the patients, giving us safety precautions at that facility,  to protect us from failures in the system.  I wonder, really, how often we are given mega-watt doses of radiation, by tom-foolery technicians who don't know anything about the machines they are using...spooky, scary, and frightening...Happy Halloween...

I've been avoiding this topic, as it upsets me to the infinite ends that have no ends, or beginnings...a great enigma.  Do, no do, or doo-doo?  What is the right thing to do?  Tell, no-tell, or William Tell (straight shooter ~ aim that arrow right between thine eyes)???

Least of all, tell the patient the TRUTH...the lies are unforgivable.

Love,
Indi
   
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