Oh really? Are you calling me a liar? Here's the url. It's an open board. Go read. Here's a few posts for you.
http://www.uoaa.org/forum/viewforum....c1a7fc0eba7c88 I have a colostomy. So, I know exactly what I am talking about. I am just like all the people on the ostomy board.
Re: DEATH OF FARRAH FAWCETT FROM RECTAL CA
by SandyRN0224 » 2009-06-25 18:39:15
The whole thing is very sad, but I was personally offended at the way she portrayed ostomy patients, whether it was inadvertent or just her own "vanity". She made us out to look like the stigma that having an ostomy is a horrible thing, a fate worse than death in her eyes. In her show she NEVER mentioned bowel movements which must have been incredibly painful considering where her CA was. I WANTED to hear her say that it hurt to poop. I didn't WANT her to hurt, just wanted it mentioned that yes, she does do that particular body function. I think it was important for other CA patients to know what she went through in that area. Not one word, unless I missed it.
I asked my fiance, a survivor of Renal cell carcinoma, this question....'if you had CA and you had an opportunity to have it ALL taken out with a stoma surgery, would you?" He looked at me like I had 4 eyes and said, "what do you think?" I knew his answer because he had his kidney removed so that the CA would be gone. He's been CA free over a decade now, thankfully.
I know I must sound judgemental. Maybe I am a little. I'm an RN, raised on science. I think experimental/alternative treatments are wonderful (usually) and we would not be as far as we are now in treating CA and other diseases without them, BUT, when you have an option to just take it out, why don't you do it? Why do you risk death?? I know nothing is 100%, but she could possibly have had a better chance. I say this without knowing how deep the CA cells were, etc. Also, her liver mets were not there when she was initially diagnosed, right? That could possibly have been prevented as well.
I know vanity plays a very big part in many of our lives. I'm as vain as the next person. I dye my hair, I pain my nails, I watch my weight, but I would gladly lose my entire colon, rectum, kidney, whatever, to live this life!
It's not for me to judge what she did, I just think it's sad that she's not here now when she might of had a chance at life. I think that, in my own life anyway, the science comes first, the treatment most likely to keep me alive is what I'm going to do first. Then I'll look at alternative and experimental treatments to compliment......
I haven't read all your replies yet so I hope you don't find me rude....I guess I just don't understand it.....and it's not for me to understand. I'm just sorry she's not here anymore, and I'm real certain Ryan O'Neil feels the same way. That poor man must be devastated. "Sometimes that mtn you been climbing is just a grain of sand"
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Re: DEATH OF FARRAH FAWCETT FROM RECTAL CA
by xxemo_bearxx » 2009-06-25 19:16:07
SandyRN,
I know exactly what you mean. I've hesitated to post my thoughts because well, they may seem harsh or rude. I was frustrated with the way she portrayed us, and the fact she would rather have died than get an ostomy which may have saved her. I got mine at 16 and I chose to live rather than die which I would've if I didn't get my ostomy. It's very sad that people are that vain..
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