Re: Video - Even in death, one child continues to inspire

[Guest guest]

KC

Do you or anybody else know anything else about these fungal brain tumors?

How do they distinguish them from cancer, and how are they treated?

The reason I ask is because a close friend's mother was recently diagnosed

with a noncancerous brain tumor and although I am sure she has excellent

medical care, I am sure she would like to know if there was something that

might help that hadn't been tried (Its evidently inoperable)

Its pressing on her brain and she has had stroke-like things happen. For

that reason she has now been told by her doctor she can no longer drive.

She's taking it well but it must be terrifying. If something like an

antifungal would help, that would be great. How do doctors tell?

[Guest guest]

LS,

I don't think I can really answer that question, but hopefully there

are others that can. Can this be determined through the correct

bloodwork, you would think. I'm sure we all could assume this fungal

infection (tumors, lesions) are most likely caused by an

aspergillus, how did she contract it that's anybodies quess. Both

parents were very nice when I spoke to them and of course very

concerned. From what I can remember she was a normal. healthy child

before this infection overcame her. Was she on mega doses of

antibodics beforehand, I don't know. But I'm curious now. The first

symptom that the parents took notice of was she (Molly) was losing

her balance, but how many other symptoms were there that they didn't

notice or didn't correlate.

When the doctors were first asking for help through the media they

showed the x-rays similiar in the video of her brain and you could

clearly see the tumor and lesions. They started I believe with

sporonax IV, which did not seem to help much until they started

injecting it directly into the tumor.Only then did it start to

shrink, but also at that time Molly was losing the battle. In my

mind I knew what the end results were going to be, I'm surprised she

lasted as long as she did. But I was hesitant of contacting the

parents again.

Cases like this are always very disturbing. It reminds me of several

cases of other children from the same location, I believe in NC,

where the school and the parents were aware of the mold infestation,

several of the young students came down with a rare form of brain

cancer. Several have died and several other instances we could not

get any info on.

Just think, all of these conditions could possibly be prevented if

the general public had been educated on the toxins these molds

produce. Such a shame. They don't start paying attention until

lawsuits start flying and then they wonder why.

For them to keep saying it's an unknown disease with no known cure

is pathetic. Just like all the information that has been stiffled

over the years, that's criminal. Say what it is, it is a FUNGAL

INFECTION and most likely not brought on by ingestion.

Our medical institutions need to come to the understanding if you

are inhaling it, you are ingesting it also. The spores get lodged in

the saliva in the back of your throat due to inhalation and guess

where they go when you swallow? If they can't figure this out they

shouldn't be in the possition that they are in.

KC

--- In , LiveSimply <quackadillian@...>

wrote:

>

> KC

>

> Do you or anybody else know anything else about these fungal brain

tumors?

> How do they distinguish them from cancer, and how are they treated?

>

> The reason I ask is because a close friend's mother was recently

diagnosed

> with a noncancerous brain tumor and although I am sure she has

excellent

> medical care, I am sure she would like to know if there was

something that

> might help that hadn't been tried (Its evidently inoperable)

>

> Its pressing on her brain and she has had stroke-like things

happen. For

> that reason she has now been told by her doctor she can no longer

drive.

>

> She's taking it well but it must be terrifying. If something like

an

> antifungal would help, that would be great. How do doctors tell?

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thank you!

I just found this:

Aspergilloma of the brain: an overview.

http://www.jpgmonline.com/temp/jpgm51537_130700.pdf

[Guest guest]

Live,

the link isn't working. can you try to forward it again. would love to

read about this.

thanks, Dana

--- In , LiveSimply <quackadillian@...>

wrote:

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> Thank you!

>

> I just found this:

>

> Aspergilloma of the brain: an overview.

> http://www.jpgmonline.com/temp/jpgm51537_130700.pdf

>

[Guest guest]

On 5/22/07, gsgrl2000 <gsgrl2000@...> wrote:

No problem. (although the subject is terrifying..aspergilloma of the brain

is a very bad diagnosis for someone to get..as you'll see)

Make sure this (below) is all on one line, with no spaces..

Then follow the link in the " Full Text " banner in the upper right corner,

then click on PDF link on that page..

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed & cmd=Retrieve & dopt=Abstra\

ctPlus & list_uids=16519254 & query_hl=1 & itool=pubmed_docsum

Live,

> the link isn't working. can you try to forward it again. would love to

> read about this.

>

> thanks, Dana

>

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> >

> > Thank you!

> >

> > I just found this:

> >

> > Aspergilloma of the brain: an overview.

> > http://www.jpgmonline.com/temp/jpgm51537_130700.pdf

> >

>

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