Re: Mayo Clinic Opposes Obamacare

"Rumpelstiltskin" <PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6fpj65dda7d4r4gtmbce0qcqrb5vr98a3h@xxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:28:03 -0400, "Evelyn" <evelyn.ruut@xxxxxxxxx>
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Well, perhaps I omitted a part of the equation that might help you
understand my decision a bit better. The option presented to me was, as I
indicated previously, performance of a diagnostic biopsy. What I didn't
tell you was that, in the process of performing that procedure, I would
more than likely end up with the malignant kidney totally removed and
forced to rely on a marginally functional remaining kidney. That is just
about a lead pipe cinch guarantee that the rest of my life would have to
be spent hooked up to a dialysis machine somewhere for three to four hours
per day for three of four days of every week. My son, who is an RN, told
me that whatever information I may have received about the dialysis
process, he never saw a patient undergoing that treatment who was happy
about the restrictions imposed on the rest of his life by the process.
For that reason, he told me that he respected my decision and would
certainly honor it and wouldn't try to dissuade me from it.

IOW, the prospect offered by that process was not one that was compatible
with my vision of quality of life that I wanted for myself.

Hal



I do understand and respect your choice.


Yes, best wishes to Hal. It's the choice I would make
myself, I think, if I have the guts when and if the time
comes.


A tough call, but I think I would do the same (like you if I had the courage to).

More and more I hear people say things like this. A very nice elderly neighbor just had a breast cancer removed. She said "absolutely no chemo" and she wants to let things fall where they may.

--

Evelyn

"Even as a mother protects with her life her only child, So with a boundless heart let one cherish all living beings." --Sutta Nipata 1.8

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