Posted on 05/25/2009 3:39:41 PM PDT by JoeProBono
A woman and her 13-year-old son who were on the run from court-ordered cancer treatment for the boy have returned to Minnesota, the Brown County Sheriff's Office said Monday.
"Daniel Hauser and his mother have been returned to Minnesota," according to a news release. It did not reveal any additional details, but said there would be a news conference Monday evening.
The FBI's affidavit in support of an arrest warrant for Colleen alleges she fled the state Tuesday to avoid being prosecuted on two state counts of depriving another of custodial or parental rights in Brown County.
The FBI said the pair flew from Minnesota to Los Angeles last Tuesday on Sun Country Airlines. Investigators suspected they might have headed to one of a number of alternative cancer clinics in northern Mexico.
Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a malignancy (cancer) of lymph tissue found in the lymph nodes, spleen, liver, and bone marrow.
Treatment varies with the stage of the disease. Stages I and II (limited disease) can be treated with localized radiation therapy, with chemotherapy or with a combination of both. Stages III and IV (extensive disease) are treated with chemotherapy alone or a combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy. The best treatment for an individual patient depends on many factors, and should be discussed in detail with a doctor who has experience treating this disease.
Chemotherapy can cause low blood cell counts, which can lead to an increased risk of bleeding, infection, and anemia.
With appropriate treatment, more than 80% of people with stage I or II Hodgkin’s survive for at least 10 years. With widespread disease, the treatment is more intense and the 5-year survival rate is about 60%.
Possible Complications
Other cancers
Lung problems
Liver failure
Adverse effects of radiation and chemotherapy
Inability to have children (sterility)
Yes, I understand they are waving various signal flags around him in the belief that it will cause the cancer to go into remission.
Her child can’t, though.
That is true. But we all make our choices about how we live and care for our families. I may choose to live at the Artic Circle with my family thus exposing them to significant risks. You may choose to live on a sailboat and sail the world. A world without choices and decisions is very poor indeed.
Do you want me to tell you of my personal experience? Pretty terrible is not what I would have called it.
How many have wanted to pull the plug on ill children that they thought weren’t “viable”. Those agencies are accountable to no one.
>>How much of your life do you want government to control?
As little as possible. But I want it to protect innocent lives — pre- and post-partum. With a 90% success rate, this is like the State allowing the parent to withhold food and water, or transfusion, insulin, a kidney or other valid and generally successful treatments.
NO 13 year old can make this decision. They need a parent to make a rational choice for them. If this was experimental or had a very low success rate, the decision becomes more complex.
It is OK for a Jehovas Witness to allow their child in a car accident to bleed out because they want to use “alternative treatment?”
The kid is 13 years old. Do you think maybe he said that because that’s what he thought his mommy wanted to hear. Is it possible the mommy has brainwashed the kid?
What about the dad wanting the kid to have the treatments—doesn’t he have anything to say about it?
I don't? Next you're going to tell me that this kid really is a medicine man just like mama says too. Yeah, she's not delusional...right...
Sucks to be that kid in your world huh? Thank God people like you aren’t in charge.
No, it doesnt suck to be my child. Her decision is not necessarily the decision I would make. But I believe she should be able to make it, without the interferance of government.
You are completely a liar on every post.
The stated cure rate is a total lie, and is proven by the statistics. The treatment leads to death almost certain within 15 to 20 years. It just changes the exact cause of death.
Non treatment is a better option than the death industry’s ‘cure.’ There are far better ways to deal with all cancer, and none of them involve using poison. Proper nutrition is the cure for all disease; all that is needed is a proper analysis of what the cause is. Removing the cause is always the best cure.
Actually, apparently for this type of childhood cancer the cure rate is quite high (in the 90% range with this particular treatment). If it were an adult I would say let them decide. With a child...I still am squishy. Is it child abuse to not get your child treatment that almost certainly could save their life?
What you said.
My father in law chose radioactive pellets
for prostate cancer. Cancer went into remission
and 5 years later, he had leukemia - I believe
from radiation exposure.
Now, the doctor wants to do Chemo and radiation.
Gave him an 80% chance he will live an additional
8 months... hair will fall out, he’ll be totally
exhausted. He is 82. Doctor pushed hard to get him
started right away. He said no. He’d rather live
out his days in dignity and enjoyment. And I don’t
blame him.
>>Water is something that we provide like food to healthy children. It is not a treatment.
How about insulin? I had to take insulin shots and I hated it. Is it OK to withhold insulin because the kid doesn’t like to inject himself?
How about a bone marrow transplant to cure leukemia? Almost 100% cure rate if you get a match. Very painful. OK to withhold that treatment?
And the fathers right in this case? If the boy is 13 is he old enough to understand what rejection of treatment really means? When do his rights as a patient kick in?
The kid apparently suffered some kind of prenatal damage. He's illiterate. (Although I suspect his postnatal life might have something to do with that as well.) He can't do any research to learn about his disease or its treatment. He thinks he's a medicine man in the phony Native American religion his parents enrolled him in. All he knows about chemotherapy is that his aunt died while on it and it makes him feel unwell. He has no idea what he's in for if he lets the cancer grow unchecked. He has no way to evaluate the efficacy of chemotherapy vs. water and vegetables. He's in way over his head, and has no ability to make medical decisions in his best interest.
No. It isn't.
NO 13 year old can make this decision.
It's really too bad that you believe that. You go ahead and believe this kid has no right to say what can be done to him.
Is that strawman the bewst lie that you can do?
>>Do you want me to tell you of my personal experience? Pretty terrible is not what I would have called it.<<
Was your Mom given a 90% chance of survival? Like I said, I saw it through with some close friends. I am sure everyone’s experience, whether personal or through friends and family, varies. My brother had it as well and to this day still has complications. But I am glad he is here and I am glad my friends are here.
Thank you for making that point.
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