Tyler Savage: he is fed through a tube in his stomach
Posted on 10/02/2007 3:51:14 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
Tyler Savage: he is fed through a tube in his stomach
A boy of 12 suffers from so many allergies that he is able to eat only five foods.
Tyler Savage is violently ill every time he is given dishes containing dairy products or wheat, gluten, eggs, lactose and soya.
The sole foods he is allowed are chicken, carrots, grapes, potatoes and apples.
To help him survive, minerals and vitamins are pumped directly into his stomach through a tube.
Tyler started to fall ill at the age of six when even a morsel of food would leave him writhing in agony from sickness and diarrhoea.
His mother, Lynne Savage, 43, said: "We asked for help but kept being told that he was suffering from a stomach infection. As a result his weight dropped drastically.
"He ran out of energy really quickly and couldn't do the things other children were doing. He just seemed to be getting worse and worse.
"It's been a real struggle. We didn't know what to do."
Tyler - from Earls Colne in Essex - was seen by a paediatrician at Chelmsford's St John's Hospital and had his appendix removed in December 2005.
Although the operation was a success it failed to solve the problem and he was referred to Colchester General Hospital for further tests and treatment.
That shed no light on the mystery illness and in April last year Tyler was sent to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London for checks on his stomach and bowels.
The tests led to a diagnosis of eosinophilic enteropathy, a rare and condition in which the intestines produce too many white blood cells.
These act as a miniature immune system and attack food passing through the gut to the stomach.
The condition saw Tyler's weight drop to barely three stone.
"He was becoming malnourished," said Mrs Savage, a married mother-of-three and housewife.
At first, Tyler was fitted with a nose tube to help get food direct to his stomach, bypassing the rogue blood cells in his gut.
Then, this May, he had a tube inserted into his stomach allowing him to be fed for up to ten hours through the night.
"Even though this will continue for the foreseeable future, it is a godsend," said Mrs Savage.
"Last year he was only at school for about ten days, but in the first two weeks of this new term he's only missed one day.
"We've got a long way to go but at least we're now getting some answers."
In the day, Tyler, whose father, David, 60, is an engineer, can eat the five foods he is not allergic to.
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Take off the “ckabee” from the HU and replace it with “nter”. Spell it out. Hunter. Duncan Hunter, our best president to come along since President Reagan. Check his record. If you need more, check out this one. ~Snip~ Where I part with the Texas legislator is his views that issues like Terri Schiavo, civil unions and abortion (otherwise an excellent read) are states’ rights issues in line with the 10th Amendment. I am very pro-states rights as much as Paul is. However, I do not see these moral issues as he does. I understand his position and on areas not dealing with these pressing moral issues of our day, I would fully concur with him. But the thought of, for example, abortion being legal in New York but illegal in Georgia is a problem for me. The same goes, for example, of same sex marriage being legal in Massachusetts but illegal in South Carolina.
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WASHINGTON, DC, October 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "I would have never guessed that some of the best advertising for the nationwide program of pro-life prayer vigils would come from Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion chain in the United States," said David Bereit, national campaign director for 40 Days for Life. The US effort to pray and fast for 40 days with a constant prayer presence outside of abortion facilities is underway in some 80 communities across the nation.
"People in more than 80 communities are taking part in 40 Days for Life, and about half of the vigils are being conducted outside Planned Parenthood facilities," he said. "It seems that's where the prayers of average people around the country are having their greatest impact." Today marks the 21st day of 40 Days for Life.
Planned Parenthood's national office is circulating an e-mail alert to abortion advocates around the country, calling for their financial help to fight back against 40 Days for Life. The message attempts to mischaracterize the peaceful intentions of those who have gathered to pray. "Right now," writes Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, "there are picketers outside clinics all across the country in an attempt to restrict women's access to health care services." (see the Planned Parenthood letter:
Halfway Through '40 Days for Life' and Planned Parenthood is Already in Crisis Mode
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Thread by Salvation:
Dr. Charles J. Dougherty, president of Duquesne University, has directed campus-based radio station WDUQ to stop running advertisements for Planned Parenthood. He based his decision on the hostility to Catholic Church teachings by Planned Parenthood, the nation's leading advocate for abortion.
Planned Parenthood has launched a public relations effort to put pressure on the university to reverse the president's move.
Duquesne Catholic University President Stops Planned Parenthood Ads
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HULK HOGAN SON CAR ACCIDENT: Updates on John Graziano at 970 wfla.com or wfla970.com. He's still in a coma at Bayfront Medical Center. His expenses covered by the VA (He's a Marine).
Pray. Nothing but.
Thanks for the plug! LOL!
Everyone needs to go pray in front of a Planned Parenthood Clinic through November 4th.
You should see the faces of those driving in or out when I eyeball them and make the Sign of the Cross.
They look away so fast! Bless their broken hearts.
At first we thought our overt actions would be acts of defiance baiting the guilty into fits of anger. The Rosary has an almost mind boggling effect in times like that and sometimes surprising to us, a calming effect, not the taunting one might think. I believe it touches those in need even when it doesn’t show in their startled looks. See the next post I am doing downthread about what happened in Pinellas Park. Nearly wore out the beads there.
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Without a doubt Tom Hoefling ("Comparing Huckabee with Keyes") is the real deal – and worthy people, thoughtful words, are the companies we should be keeping as we meditate before our God, asking who should lead this great nation. WND columnist Janet Folger is the real deal too, committed to the movement almost too much, unto the expending of herself. The issue that occupies Tom, Janet and me is this: unity. I remember another conversation with those friends about the same thing. It took place over a couple days in an over-trafficked McDonalds in Pinellas Fla., in March of 2005. A block down from the hospice where they murdered Terri Schiavo, Tom Hoefling, Janet Folger, I and many other Christian souls talked and struggled, trying to find the solution to organizing God's people. What we had just seen – the wholesale murder of an innocent woman by the tyrannical state – was done while only disorganized platoons resisted. We struggled like the Federalist Papers, seeking how a national movement would not let it happen again. We dismayed over how there was no supreme allied commander, no authority or command organization within the pro-life movement. There were only field marshals, only loyal soldiers, all of whom did what was right in their own eyes.
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"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
Double ping to above post in the WND today! Something powerful and unifying happened on those hallowed grounds at that time of passion. It formed a bond uniting us perhaps as just humble soldiers, but with a guidance from above.
Two and a half years later, it continues unabated...
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The Badlands Right to Life organization is sponsoring the appearance in Dickinson on Tuesday of Dr. William Toffler, an Oregon doctor and co-founder of Physicians for Compassionate Care, and Bobby Schindler, brother of the late Terri Schiavo. At 7 p.m. Tuesday in the auditorium at Trinity High School in Dickinson, Toffler and Schindler will speak on "The Reality of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Today." Schindler's portion is "Remembering Terri Schiavo: The Battle to Save My Sister's Life." Toffler will speak on "Protecting Our Aging Loved Ones." The public is welcome; there is no admission charge.
Since his sister's death on March 31, 2005, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed by court order, Bobby Schindler has traveled across the country as a spokesman for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation.
Bobby Schindler, brother of the late Terri Schiavo, will speak in Dickinson
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I have to take a break and realize this will kill my appetite for the rest of the morning, anytime I read something about this perv.
The only openly gay congressman, Barney Frank, has long been subject to homophobic attacks. Happily, the Massachusetts liberal is master of the precision-guided comeback, which he unleashes with devastating results.
~Snip~
Frank recently told antiwar activists holding vigils outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home in San Francisco that they've seen too many showings of "The Wizard of Oz." They think Pelosi is Glenda the Good Witch, he said, who can wave her wand and make the Iraq war go away. Changing the war's direction requires compromise. On things like appropriations, he notes that Democrats don't have the votes to override presidential vetoes. "We're going to have to accept inadequate funding for a whole range of issues."
Frank sees the campaign to push transgender rights into the anti-discrimination bill as creating a potential "Terri Schiavo" moment for the Democrats -- that is, a situation where the fringes drag their party into a crusade that makes the broader public think its leaders are out of their gourds.
There's No Pleasing the Fringes
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He started life named Piyush and worshipped at the altar of Hinduism. His conversion to Roman Catholicism and "Bobby" (a name he took from Bobby Brady of "The Brady Bunch") had nothing to do with political aspirations. I mean, I know my state - especially those "David Duke voters" - would vote for a Hindu named Piyush, wouldn't they?
I can look past U.S. Rep. Bobby "Piyush" Jindal, R-Kenner, being a manufactured candidate. I understand political realities and the need to fit in, especially in Louisiana. What I cannot forgive, however, is the offensiveness which Piyush perpetuates through his record in Congress during the past three years.
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As if this were not enough, he voted against expanded funding for stem cell research. The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 would have allowed medical science to make groundbreaking research into curing cancer, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, just to name a few. Curing disease is one of those issues the pro-life camp is seemingly against, and therefore Piyush had no choice but to stand with the group he is beholden to on the issue. We saw this same level of commitment to the pro-lifers when he voted to give jurisdiction to federal courts on the Terri Schiavo issue as she lay brain dead in a Florida hospital.
Just say no to Piyush "Bobby" Jindal this election
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While Democrats fully intend to capture every embarrassing vote in an array of 30-second TV spots ahead of the 2008 elections, they insist that none of the legislation they are passing — much of it with bi-partisan support — is simply symbolic gotcha bills meant to paint Bush into a corner and score political points. As one senior Senate aide remarked: "This is not Terry Schiavo, flag burning and gay marriage." That may or may not be true, but the mud that flies should be just as ugly.
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Philadelphia, PA (LifeNews.com) -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia attended Catholic celebratory events on Monday and gave a speech at Villanova Law School's Second Annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics & Culture. He reconfirmed his belief that the so-called right to abortion is found nowhere in the Constitution.
He said that notion is not guided by his Catholic views but by his understanding of the Constitution and his perspective as a "strict originalist" and "legal positivist."
~Snip~
"Roe v. Wade is one. There is nothing in the Constitution about the right to abortion," the associate justice explained.
Justice Antonin Scalia Reconfirms: No Right to Abortion in Constitution
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I can easily see Huckabee gaining momentum and winding up the nominee.
Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- An Italian court has granted a request by a disabled woman's father for a new trial in his bid to remove her feeding tube and authorize her death by starvation and dehydration. Eluana Englaro has been a coma for 15 years after an automobile accident seriously injured her and her father wants to remove her feeding tube.
The nation's highest appellate court -- the Cassation Court -- gave Beppino Englaro a new trial after, earlier this month, a Milan court denied his request to take his daughter's life.
This isn't the first time Englaro's case had been in court.
Italy Father Who Wants to Remove Daughter's Feeding Tube Gets New Trial
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WASHINGTON, October 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Planned Parenthood faces criminal charges for aborting late-term, pre-born babies in violation of Kansas state law. Today, Kansas District Attorney Phill Kline filed a 107-count indictment against the abortion group. District Court Judge James Vano found probable cause. The charges are as follows:
23 felony counts of making a false writing 29 misdemeanor counts of performing unlawful late term abortions 27 misdemeanor counts of failure to maintain records 29 misdemeanor counts of failure to determine viability
Judge Finds Probable Cause on Criminal Charges Filed Against Planned Parenthood
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Breaking news: San Brownback backs out of presidential race. He may run for governor of Kansas.
www.roex.com is the source I use. The founder of the company had severe allergies himself, as a child; and it was the reason for finding an alternative to all the shots and other drugs, that just weren't working.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58192
On another topic, the US Supreme court halted the execution of Christopher Scott Emmett as they agonize over a lethal injection being "unconstitutionally cruel." We are talking about a killer here.
Where were all these people, who now demand that vicious criminals should be put to death very gently and preferably not at all, when Terri Schiavo was tortured to death? This is perverted.
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