SV: re: suggestions anyone - cancer patient

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Emne: re: suggestions anyone - cancer patient

 

 

Are,

 

Do you have any info available on-line re:your cancer tx? It seems I'm

getting a rash of cancer px lately.

 

Everyone: the patient I described 3 days ago has deteriorated significantly

in that time: apparently the lining of the intestines, destroyed during the

chemo, hasn't regenerated so the food she's getting via stomach tube isn't

doing much good; they tried a partially digested mix today, it made the

abdominal cramps much worse. Also, the staph infection she got in the

hospital appears to be regrouping and affecting her throat and lungs -

they're expecting another onset of pneumonia, she's gurgling on in-breath,

and speaking is becoming very difficult, as is taking anything by mouth, she

has aspirated fluids several times. UTI is not abating. She's on a morphine

pump for the pain, but has said she doesn't want more treatment except

acupuncture. She was in a drug-induced sleep state today, didn't even wake

when I treated her. Skin is dusky, lips slightly cyanotic, tips of toes

slightly blue as well. Tongue not visible, retracted. Pulses all fast, tiny,

soft, kidney pulses deep, !

lung and heart floating and the irregularity has disappeared.

 

The MDs are pretty much at road's end; has anyone treated someone this sick?

I am uncertain whether to encourage her partner to push the MDs to cooperate

with naturopathic and/or TCM medicinals - it should be possible in this

hospital as both I and a naturopath have hospital privileges and the western

staff mostly supports " alternative " medicine. She's a friend as well as a

patient and she would be open to herbal medicines (as a rule responds much

better to them than pharmaceuticals) but I don't want to encourage extending

her suffering longer if it's not reasonable to believe it might turn things

around. Does anyone have experience or even educated opinions? The severity

of her case is far beyond anything I've ever treated.

 

Thanks

 

Deb Marshall