Re:Parents Break Teen Out of Mayo Clinic
by DoreenMichele on Thursday August 16, 2018 @07:44AM
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My sister actually works for the CDC and she's had cancer multiple times. She was patient zero in a study in another state from the one she lived in. One of the times she had cancer, she flew regularly to a state of the art facility for about 18 months to not die from her very aggressive form of cancer.
At that time, we were still close. When we talked on the phone, we would quote some Star Trek line about "Good God Jim, you can't leave him in the hands of 20th Century medicine!"
I was in a really nice facility. I was not crazy. I was just a teenager who had been molested and raped by a relative who was not old enough to legally advocate for myself. (it's a long story)
You would need to do better than merely throwing money at the problem and upgrading our current cages to cushy gilded cages for me to feel that it had some hope of being better than sleeping in a tent in the woods on my own recognizance.
"Bars do not a prison make". And gilded bars do not a civilized climate make by any stretch of the imagination.
At that time, we were still close. When we talked on the phone, we would quote some Star Trek line about "Good God Jim, you can't leave him in the hands of 20th Century medicine!"
(Not the quote, but the rescue scene where the good doctor describes chemo as "sounds like the Spanish Inquisition": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMaGnpVaSGQ)
I was in a really nice facility. I was not crazy. I was just a teenager who had been molested and raped by a relative who was not old enough to legally advocate for myself. (it's a long story)
You would need to do better than merely throwing money at the problem and upgrading our current cages to cushy gilded cages for me to feel that it had some hope of being better than sleeping in a tent in the woods on my own recognizance.
"Bars do not a prison make". And gilded bars do not a civilized climate make by any stretch of the imagination.