tanya c asked:


I am curious to how long it will take to heal? And if anyone e;se has had the treatment? If so, tell me more…Please

heidi asked:


i have a little cousin called nicole, who is four years old. she is a very spoiled little girl, who always gets upset when she doesn`t get her own way. she was an only child raised by her single mother. aunt rose had recently got married again. her husband is a man called harry, who was a single father. he has a six-year-old son called jason. after the wedding, the two children did not get along. nicole loved to get jason into trouble and jason considered nicole to be the most annoying pest ever. unfortunately, jason got cancer and was in the hospital for ages. he had to undergo many treatments, including chemotherapy, which made his hair fall out. when he got home, people gave him most of the attention. nicole feels ignored and left out. when they go out as a family, jason might not feel well and they have to hurry him home. nicole would cry because she wants to stay and play. her mum and stepdad would just comfort her, saying”we will play later.” what can i do to help them?

Lyndon C asked:


I’m cutting my 3-yr-old daughter’s hair for the first time. How long should I make the clippings to be suitable for donation? It’s very fine, and I think I can easily cut 6″.
I’m cutting my 3-yr-old daughter’s hair for the first time. How long should I make the clippings to be suitable for donation? It’s very fine and straight. I think I can easily cut 6″.

Locks for Love just says it wants 10-12″ as a donation and will take 6-10″ to be sold to raise money to offset manufacturing costs. That looks like a one size fits all requirment. Is there any special consideration that this hair will be from a 3-year old?

Riverman asked:


Colorado Children’s Deaths Rekindle Debate on Religion
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY

ENVER, Feb. 20 — The deaths over the last two years of three Colorado children whose parents denied them medical treatment on religious grounds has fueled support for state legislation that would prevent parents from using their religion as a defense against prosecution.

The parents of all three children belong to the General Assembly and Church of the First Born, a small denomination that believes in prayer, rather than medical treatment, to cure illnesses and disabilities.

Largely as a result of intense lobbying by the Church of Christ, Scientist, which also favors prayer over medicine, Colorado and 45 other states have statutes that allow parents to use their religious beliefs as a defense against prosecution for withholding medical treatment from their children. The exceptions are Hawaii, Massachusetts, Nebraska and North Carolina.

But with evidence that dozens of other children of parents with similar beliefs may have died in the last 25 years in Colorado, this state has become one of the first to consider eliminating the religious exemption, which its opponents say sanctifies a form of child abuse. The effort has rekindled a debate here, pitting religious freedom against the rights of children. “I don’t think freedom of religion should allow a child to die for not getting proper medical care,” said State Senator Bob Hagedorn, a Democrat who is leading support in the Senate for a bill now under review in the House.

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that parents do not have an absolute right to deny their children medical treatment on religious grounds, saying in a 1944 decision that while parents “may be free to become martyrs themselves,” “it does not follow they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children.” The court reprised the same thought in a 1990 case.

But legal experts say that state and local officials have not seen the Supreme Court language as a clear directive for prosecution of child abuse and homicide cases. Congress did little to clarify the issue with a 1974 directive that required states receiving federal money for child abuse and prevention programs to have an exemption for parents who substitute spiritual healing for medical care. The requirement was rescinded nine years later, but by then, most states had enacted their religious exceptions, which effectively allow parents to treat ailing children through prayer without fear of prosecution if something goes wrong.

Then in 1996, Congress seemed to reverse itself in the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, saying there was no federal requirement that a child must be provided “any medical service or treatment against the religious beliefs of the parent or legal guardian.”

In Colorado, for example, prosecutors have always been able to bring civil charges against parents who deny their children medical help under state civil laws. But few have, said State Representative Kay L. Alexander, the House Republican sponsoring the measure, which was approved 8 to 3 by the Criminal Justice Committee. Ms. Alexander said the exemption in the criminal code “has had a chilling effect” on local district attorneys. Leaders from many of the dozens of churches that favor prayer over treatment say they have ample proof their spiritual healing works as effectively as a visit to a doctor.

Marvin Peterson, an elder of the church to which the families of the three dead children belong, said a member recently fell off a ladder and cracked open her skull. After elders prayed and anointed her with oil, he said, she recovered.

“I’ve seen people healed of cancer, seen it with my own eyes,” Mr. Peterson said, taking strong exception to critics who characterize the church as a cult. “We believe that if it’s the Lord’s will, you will rise up.”

While few critics of Mr. Peterson’s church and other like-minded denominations argue with the right of parents to choose the manner of treatment for themselves, they assert that children have constitutional guarantees to medical care. For years, Rita Swan has been one of the leading voices on their behalf as founder of Children’s Health Care Is a Legal Duty, an organization based in Sioux City, Iowa, that lobbies for removing the state exemptions. Once a Christian Scientist, Mrs. Swan said that in 1977 a church “practitioner” — a member who is paid to pray — told her and her husband after several weeks of prayer that their 17-month-old son, Matthew, was suffering from a broken bone. Since Christian Scientists are allowed to consult doctors for broken bones, the Swans took Matthew to a hospital, only to learn he was suffering from spinal meningitis. He died a week later.

Mrs. Swan and Dr. Seth M. Asser, a pediatrician in San Diego, released a study in 1998 that found 172 cases of children dying between 1975 and 1995, more than 30 of them in Colorado, after their parents failed to get them medical treatment on religious grounds. Mr. Peterson responded, “Children also die in hospitals every day.”

Prosecutors have been loath to bring charges in many cases because of the ambiguities of the law and what they say are well-intentioned actions of parents whose religious beliefs are so strong that they prefer to put their children in the hands of God, rather than a doctor.

Frank Daniel, the Mesa County district attorney, had jurisdiction in the cases of the three Colorado children who died. He won a conviction for criminally negligent child abuse, a felony, in 1999 against the parents of an 18-day-old infant who died of meningitis. He declined to prosecute the parents of a 3-day-old infant who died of a heart defect. He said today that he had yet decided what to do in the latest case, involving Amanda Bates, a 13-year-old girl who died of complications of diabetes two weeks ago.

The county coroner, Robert Kurtzman, ruled her death a homicide.

Copyright February 21, 2001 The New York Times Company

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Princess2929 asked:


First of all to better describe so you may answer this question in this context I will elaborate.
My father is now 52 years old and I am 26 years old and a female, I am currently living on west coast and he is living on the east coast. He has cancer of the esophagus. He needs chemo 5 days a week for 3 months and has not started treatment yet.
Background of our relationship:
My father and I have had a rocky relationship. I left home when I was 17 to live with friends who were in college in order to be able to concentrate on graduating from high school. My father would yell at me constantly he would have unrealistic expectations of me and he expected me to have no friends or boyfriends. Every time I brought a boy home he made me regret it. He would embarrass me in front of friends or anyone with no remorse. He would throw things when he was angry he would make me cry he would say such terrible things to me. He called me (a me a really bad name for a girl which i can’t say on here) while I was talking on the phone to a boy who was a friend when I was in middle school and all I was saying was do you want to go rollerblading later today. He took my phone out of my hand threw it across a parking lot in front of people because he was mad. I grew up got a college degree, am married now and we have tried to keep a relationship going but recently he’s gotten worse. I moved away because my husband is in the military and my parents who are still married never come to visit even though I visit a few times a year to see them (we lived six hours apart when driving-30min.flight). I cry on the phone asking them to come visit to keep a relationship going they always have excuses for me, they didn’t come to see my college graduation. My mother said my father was jealous of me graduating and my father told her not to buy me anything for graduation. I came to visit after graduation mainly to see my aunts and uncles and my grandparents and my father tried to interfere with me visiting them by lying to me and saying his brother was sick so I need not go visit him when in fact he was not sick. He is jealous and mean and still married to my mom whom he gets information out of about me like my telephone number and how I feel about how he treats me so if I confide in her it’s like I’m directly talking to him.
Currently :
He found out four days ago he has cancer and asked me to come home all the way from across the country to take him to cancer treatments, my first answer was no, how can I he hasn’t been a father to me and I’m newly married (3 years, half of that time my husband was deployed) and I’m wanting to start graduate school soon, the stress of moving in with them for three months while he goes thru chemo would destroy my mental health and may really disturb my life. I feel like I can’t do this to myself, my marriage and the future children me and my husband are currently trying to have. (we have been trying to get pregnant for 10months). I feel like I’ve lost a parent to mental illness already and he’s pulling my mother down with him and away from me. I can’t really help him, I can’t help her now. What would you do in this situation? When I visited a month ago, it ended in an argument and I left and my father didn’t make himself available to say goodbye to us. I feel guilty and my father called me yesterday and said he would no longer call me unless I called him and that I was a snob and I live a different lifestyle he can’t understand (I’m very reserved, not wild, whats not to understand? I like to read, watch movies, scrapbook all in all it’s a calm lifestyle).
He was wild at my age I know that maybe that’s is the difference but I think you would want your grown child to not party and to be responsible. He also abused drugs my whole life which was another embarrassment for me, he would be high and say things in front of my friends and other family members even strangers and embarrass me or hurt my feelings.
He was mostly a functioning drug addict so he thought since he provided for me okay he was a good parent, I beg to differ. He lies to me so much that yesterday he told me that he had two years to live and I can’t even be sure it’s true.
What do I do? I’m so nervous about it all and do not know how to deal with this. Dealing with a mentally ill parent has been a subject of my life I’ve learned to handle in various ways but the worst part is separating the hurtful things he does from my actual father (the person in there somewhere I love). He has been diagnosed with several things anxiety, bipolar, depression and other things I’m not sure about. He was also hospitalized for drug dependency once that I knew of before I was born.
What you can make out of all the information here I have given you would be great. I don’t want it to be thought of as a complaining session but merely a base for understanding the situation in order to give me an answer that reflects the situation.
My direct question is:
How do

worried asked:


I’m 18yrs old and I’ve bled for 7 weeks out of the last 8. I’ve researched online and it could be 1 of 3 things. Cervical Cancer, Endemitriosis, or Fibriods. My mother had endemitriosis when she was my age and her mother had cervical cancer when she was younger. I’m going to the doctor tomorrow so my question can be answered then but I can’t sleep worrying about it so I hope someone can give me one now so I can get some rest:) Anyway my question is: If I do have cervical cancer are there treatments avalible that won’t mess with my fertility? Will I ever be able to carry a child? Thanks if anyone can put my mind at ease. Sincerly, Worried

heidi asked:


i have a little cousin called nicole, who is four years old. she is a very spoiled little girl, who always gets upset when she doesn`t get her own way. she was an only child raised by her single mother. aunt rose had recently got married again. her husband is a man called harry, who was a single father. he has a six-year-old son called jason. after the wedding, the two children did not get along. nicole loved to get jason into trouble and jason considered nicole to be the most annoying pest ever. unfortunately, jason got cancer and was in the hospital for ages. he had to undergo many treatments, including chemotherapy, which made his hair fall out. when he got home, people gave him most of the attention. nicole feels ignored and left out. when they go out as a family, jason might not feel well and they have to hurry him home. nicole would cry because she wants to stay and play. her mum and stepdad would just comfort her, saying”we will play later.” what can i do to help them?

mcross asked:


My friend lives in South Mississippi and was living in a fema trailer since the hurricane. It smelled strongly of formaldehyde and she called to complain, but was dismissed. She has since been diagnosed with incurable cancer with the tumor being around her lungs, esophagus, and heart. Chemo has shrunk the tumor to nothing, but is supposed to recur. She does not want to live in the fema trailer, she can’t get another place because she has spent so much money on the surgeries, treatments, and drugs there is none left. She can’t work while taking chemo and doesn’t know when she will be forced to continue chemo treatments. So, that leaves her with her family. She has a mother who is mentally ill. She is psychotic and has many behavioral problems. I have invited my friend here, but my young children would make it difficult to provide constant care. She is not sick enough for hospice, and doesn’t qualify for rest homes, and can’t afford home health care. Where do we go from here?

sizzlinhotpoohbear asked:


My sister is 24 yrs. old and just had her cancerous thyroid removed. She now has to undergo radioactive iodine treatment, which may damage her eggs. She has a 2 month old daughter. Her & her fiance desire more children in their future, biological, if possible. And yes, she’s very blessed and thankful for her daughter. But that doesn’t quench a mommy’s desire for more children. And yes, her focus is on her health, and getting better. But she has to prepare for the future, as well. So my question is, has anyone heard of insurance companies covering at least part of the cost of harvesting eggs, if it’s for a reason such as cancer treatment? Thank you in advance. If you intend to leave nasty comments about her having 1 child and she should leave it at that, please don’t bother then. Thanks.

MAX CADY asked:


Why is it that if you pray to jesus tonight to heal all innocent and defenseless babies with bone cancer…..There will still be the same exact number of babies with bone cancer?

Why don’t you call the nearest children’s cancer treatment center tonight and ask them how many kids there have cancer……Pray for god to heal just one of them tonight and then call tomorrow for the results?

Is it because you already know what the result will be and you don’t want to waste your time?

(btw, I donate a portion of my income to cancer treatment….you see that has a chance of actually helping people.)
The scripture says that if you pray to jesus…HE WILL HEAL and answer your prayers.
Would anyone like to try and test this scripture out tonight on a kid with cancer?
ohhhhh, so it’s my fault jesus won’t heal.
You people and your dellusions are pathetic.
Monica 80: OK then honey, call the cancer ward, ask how many kids with cancer are there…..Pray for god to heal them tonight…..call tommorrow for the results and let’s see if I’m right.