Posted by Respondant on 01/13/07 20:29

jitter wrote:

> In article <q5SdnQ85xae_qzTYnZ2dnUVZ_vupnZ2d@comcast.com>,
> Respondant@noemail.not says...
>> Rev Turd Fredericks wrote:
>>
>>> Respondant wrote:
>>>> -=Biscuit=- wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <sig partially restored>
>>>>
>>>> Help Heather kick cancer's ass! http://www.limeproject.org
>>>>
>>> SNIP>>>>>
>>>
>>>> But the WORST, by FAR, was the bone marrow
>>>> biopsy. I don't know if they still do it the same way these days,
>>>> but I was given a tongue depressor and asked to assume the
>>>> fetal-position while they shoved something that (IIRC) looked
>>>> pretty-much like a cork screw into my hip. Screwed it IN, and
>>>> YANKED it out. I NEVER felt pain like that before, and hope I
>>>> never do again. Bottom line? Hodgkin's Disease.

>>> A few months aqo I had a bone marrow biopsy and it was totally
>>> painless. They have refined the technique and the drugs they use. It
>>> stung a bit for a few days after, but no worse than a cut would
>>> have. Thankfully for me, the news was good.
>>
>> Good to know. When I had it done (again, 1977) all I was given was a
>> "local" and a tongue depressor to bite on.
>>
>> Never did find out why they didn't put me "out" for that, or at
>> least do it while I was already "under" having the lymph nodes
>> removed.
>
> Doctors can be evil. Nurses and "technicians" (vo-tech grads who
> never even went to college, let alone med school) can be even worse.
> They do similar stuff to burn patients: Strap them starked naked to
> a metal "bed", lower that into a pool of water, and then scrub the
> burns with gauze. Ever touched a burn? Hurts like hell, doesn't it?
> Well, imagine having it SCRUBBED with what amounts to sandpaper.

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You're comparing treatments to diagnostics, and spanning four decades in the
process.

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