Teen forced to have chemo

I'm glad that reason prevailed. Having said that, I am also glad to hear that he is open to radiation as a treatment possibility. Although I support the right of him and his family to choose the treatment for this disease, I didn't hold out much hope for his survival using only the Hoxley method.

http://www.courttv.com/trials/cherrix/081606_ctv.html

I think they will regret their decision sooner or later.

I'm pretty sure on a few months if he doesn't have radiation and even if he does we'll all hear of his death.
Having never been through chemo I don't know how bad it is, but I think, unless I was told that I was terminal I'd want to do everything in my power to fight the cancer and want to live. I would happily trade months of being miserable for possible happy YEARS that I would be allowed to continue living. As I said in a previous post, my husband's aunt has terminal lung and bone cancer and chose to go with chemo to give her a few extra months to spend with her daughter, grandson and the rest of her family. She had survived breast cancer and had been through chemo before, so I guess for her the misery is worth it for a few extra months. She has had all the nasty GI side effects, is bald yet again, and has problems with the skin peeling off her hands and feet but she is happy to go through all that because it's buying her time. She knows there is no way on earth of her beating the cancer she just wants to buy some time to spend with her family.
But as I said before, it's their decision and if he doesn't want to go through chemo again, it's his choice, but he's choosing to certainly die, instead of possibly live.
Wouldn't be my choice from from where I stand, but as I said I have never endured chemo so I can't say how I would truly feel if this were me.
I'm just glad the courts said him and his family could decide what was right for him, instead of the government deciding for him. Maybe he might live, very very remote chance, I think the Hoxley method is total BS and he'll die but anything is possible.

Taryn

Well this is what I found from the court TV website:

"After his first course of chemotherapy was ineffective, he rejected his oncologist's recommendation for a second, more intense round in favor of a sugar-free diet and regimen of herbal supplements prescribed by a controversial Mexican clinic. His oncologist reported his parents to social services for medical neglect."

So all in all it was his oncologist who notified CPS, because Abraham didn't want to go through the hell of an even more intense chemotherapy when this one made him totally debilitated.

I think it must have really ****** off that doctor when he heard that Abraham didn't want to go through with it and instead start something alternative that the oncologist didn't agree with.

I just hope that I will never see this kind of a case again before the courts because the issue is clear that it is his and his parents choice and nobody elses.