RA>I think it was a younger doctor.  The thing is, he was working with
  >people who had post polio syndrome.  This was back a few years when the
  >medical establishment was first becoming generally aware that there was
  >such a thing, and here they were trying to get as many people as possible
  >who had had polio to go in to be evaluated, etc.  Mario's stepmother's
  >experience is very similar to Jo's.  Jo has found she has had to provide
  >the doctors with basic information about polio.
When post polio syndrome was first dicovered, and even now to some
extent, doctors really didn't know what symptoms belonged in that
category; and so they often listed a much broader range of symptoms than
they currently list.
RA>I have only known one person who went totally with the alternative
  >treatments, in fact, quit the chemo for it.  I can't say if he would have
  >lived longer if he had stuck with the chemo or if he had combined
  >treatments, but he did not survive very long with the treatment he chose.
  >I think if it were me, I'd probably want to try everything that wouldn't
  >kill me outright but might have a chance of working.  That sounds pretty
  >much like what you did.
That's what I did.  A number of acquaintences, and a few friends, tried
to talk me into dropping chemo after I started it.  They're people who
are very, very into natural healing.  I kept pointing out to them that I
had done my research, and the stats were that pre-memopausal women with
breast cancer have a 25% higher long term survival rate if they do
chemo.  25% was enough higher, in my mind, for it to be worth it.
                       Sondra
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