Posted by jitter on 01/13/07 21:29

In article <I4adncAX77L-0TTYnZ2dnUVZ_vGinZ2d@comcast.com>,
Respondant@noemail.not says...
> jitter wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I (and others) were talking about bone marrow biopsies, and how that

[whining clipped]

You shared a story of pain at the hands of medical professionals; I
reciprocated. You're just upset because I stole your thunder. (Get
over it.)

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