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                             Doctor's  in a bind (Part 2) 

Following my last post --


                                   A Tale of Two Bears . . .

 This is Sandsie's special Friend -- "Thread Bare." 

I was three years old when we became friends. Over the next 67 years, he came with me for a three months stay in an infectious disease hospital in Australia when I had diphtheria; he was there for me when I came home from a Sydney hospital at the age of 36 (five  kids whatsmore) with a  one year prognosis to live from carcinoma; again when I was 46 years old and diagnosed with mesothelioma (lung cancer) and two years to live; and then again, 14 years ago when I had major surgery for cancer and was told by my surgeon that the most I could live was "three, maybe five years at the most."

Do the math. Yup, I am 70 years old. 

Sometimes I lift my little Thread Bare down from his perch and feel comforted by the touch of a good friend. My adult children all want him for themselves at sometime in the future. I have cut a deal with them and each have him for one year and pass him on for another year of friendship.

In the picture of Thread Bare looking at a little leukemia patient through the window is to reassure her that being in the chamber would not cause pain. This young lady had her own talisman friend "Bee" as in B-for-Bear inside with her.

Most cancer kids have their version of these bears or other little friends  -- talismans, really.  Usually, the oncology response causes pain beyond what few who have not suffered it cannot  imagine. Little friends like Bee can ease the fear, pain and loneliness of being a child and taking the advice of a hospital person who says "now be brave."

So, when children came to my hyperbaric centers they assumed that there would be more pain, more fear. I would bring Thread Bare and say "he will look through the window the entire time, and this will be the best treatment that you have ever had." Always cheered the little sufferers up.

Bee now sits alone in the bedroom of this lovely little girl -- her folks have made the room a shrine since she "gained angel wings and flew". This child was a gifted artist. Wonderful paintings, some complete, some almost. The parents later told me that they often come into her room and pat Bee on the head to say thanks for the comfort that she gave to their daughter. 

                       

I cannot show this lovely little girls face. Too much pain to go around. You need to scroll back a few postings to see that the oncologist "forbade" the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the child.  

Would she have survived (look all the other leukemia kids that we have treated) if he had said "well OK, it is worth a try"? I cannot say, I am not a physician. I do know that, for the few times she came for HBOT treatments at SD Center, she did so well. 

I also know that the oncology staff at Rady San Diego Children's Hospital (who send leukemia kids in crisis) would have written the Rx. to add HBOT to the Los Angeles oncologist's regular response.

The moral for parents: Enrol your oncologist with the latest science.  

If you want peer review scientific papers, then send an email to info@hboinfo.com, and the good folks at the Healing Chambers International Centers will respond with an email of the latest science for you to present to your oncologists.

Enough glum stories to tear at heartstrings . . . next two posts are on the reality of adding HBOT as an adjunct to conventional oncology and the success that it brings.

Then on to another subject - -  Lyme disease