APPLAUSE FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE FIGURED IT OUT. if only more people would.

i had chemo, the bastards poisoned me, and even tho i am currently cancer free (probably thanks to my diet and chinese doctor i suspect, whose herbs are pretty much keeping me standing) the chemo has TOTALLY SCREWED UP MY BODY. i ache every day; all over; i still cant walk up stairs a year later or walk anywhere fast; i feel like my heart is TOTALLY F....D - well they did warn me i guess - heart failure was one of the possible side effects, as was leukemia (meaning that chemotherapy CAUSES cancer and is carcinogenic). i get heart palpitations and cant run etc etc etc. also my family dont really believe me about the side effects anymore; they think its been a year and im just complaining now. while having chemo and being admitted to hospital after i collapsed each time they gave it to me; i felt like a malingerer cuz of the way the ambulance people and doctors treated me - they all acted as if i was 'putting it on' or something!!!! i couldnt walk, thought i was gonna die; and swelled up like a balloon full of fluid. my parents still cant understand why i was in a virtual coma for three days after every injection and think that i just 'didnt want to get up' or something - like i could have! basically, its put out that the side effects arent that bad; u shud be able to go to work; have kids; and do volunteer charity work as well while on chemo, and die when you're supposed to.... (a few weeks after chemo everyone was telling me to run/jog and do exercise; they cudnt understand at all when i kept saying that i COULDNT physically do that. altho i did go for walks....)

sorry about my little outburst there. i may harbour some pent up hostility...


hem... just realized i already posted on thsi thread some time ago; oh well, i probably repeated myself i suspect.


[edit on 2-10-2009 by rapunzel222]

A friend worked as a research chemist and one of his first jobs out of collage was working for a company that made chemo drugs. for a drug company.

The chemo drug contained about $120 worth of chemicals.

But the drug company only allowed it to be made in 5 gallon batches and the chemist could only make one batch at a time and it took about 12 hours to make a batch.

This chemist said that there was no reason for this process to be done in these small batches.

This chemo drug could have been made in 10,000 gallon batches at a cost of about 1/100 of the cost.

But by making it in batches of 5 gallons at a time the drug company could charge a 1000 times more for the drug.

The cost for the drug used was $10,000 for course of treatment instead of about $500 because of the way that the company made the chemo drug.

Because of the way this company rip off cancer patients this chemist left the drug company a year later.

He now works for the navy making new explosives to blow up things/people.