Posted by jitter on 01/13/07 20:58

In article <-dqdnTFaNZS63DTYnZ2dnUVZ_rSjnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Respondant@noemail.not says...
> 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.
>
> <snip>
>
> You're comparing treatments to diagnostics, and spanning four decades in the
> process.

Four decades? No. One decade, perhaps. The happy funtime burn-bath
process I described was still happening in the 1990s. I'm sure it was
even worse in the 1960s, but I can't imagine how.

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