Lily Rott NEEDS YOUR HELP

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FROM: Friends of Lily Rott Committee

WE NEED YOUR HELP

Our committee is made up of both health care professionals and lay people

who are friends of Lily Rott and her parents, and Rott, of

Oklahoma.

We created this committee when Lily, age three, was diagnosed with Acute

Lymphoblastic Leukemia in late July.

HERE'S WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP

In all 50 states there are laws on the books that say PARENTS DO NOT HAVE

THE RIGHT to make medical decisions for their children.

If a doctor believes his/her treatment protocol is what's best for the

child, this doctor has the legal right to report parents for medical

neglect should they question his medical authority and state welfare

agencies have the power to take custody of not only the ill child but all

the other children in the home as well.

When and Rott, Lily's mom and dad, were told by the hospital

pediatric oncologist in Tulsa that Lily had leukemia and that Lily would be

subjected to a series of possibly deadly chemical treatments that could

last two to five years, they expressed interest in exploring less toxic

means.

The doctor, apparently not used to dealing well-informed parents who not

only were well known by practitioners in all branches of the healing arts

community and who knew the real dangers of the treatment protocol being

presented, used her authority and immediately threatened the Rotts by

telling them that if they did not obey her orders 100%, they would lose

custody of Lily and the state would dictate all medical treatment until she

was 18 years old.

Undaunted by this threat and by the tirade of accusations which followed

about how unfit they were as parents for not accepting her medical opinion

on the spot, the Rotts put together a team of medical experts which

includes an MD, several osteopaths, a chiropractor, several naturopaths and

others, all of whom have participated in one way or another since then to

make sure Lily got the best care available in Oklahoma.

The Rotts reluctantly allowed Lily to receive the first chemotherapy

treatment which she seemed to tolerate reasonably well, in part, because

they asked the hospital permission to bring in special diets and other

support services provided to them by the medical advisory team they had

assembled. However, about the time Lily was to go back to the hospital for

a checkup, she woke up one morning totally unresponsive and was rushed to

the hospital in shock. She ended up in pediatric intensive care for a week

and regular intensive care for a second week. During this time Lily was in

such pain, she begged that no one touch her, she suffered nausea, sores on

her mouth as well as other toxic symptoms and, most notably, Lily lost

partial use of one arm and one leg from neurological damage. She was

gravely ill.

This crisis prompted the Rotts to beg the hospital to let them take Lily to

Switzerland where she could have a full array of treatment options, not

just the same chemotherapy that had just almost killed her and which

hospital authorities wanted to continue.

The hospital finally agreed to let them go so the Rotts got their financial

affairs in order, hastily closed up their newly-rented house, arranged

passports for their six children and themselves, and headed for the Dallas

Airport having arranged special deep discount fares to fly to Switzerland.

They were scheduled to leave September 12. However, due to the World Trade

Center bombing, all planes to Europe were grounded for many days so the

Rotts stayed in Dallas with friends until they could fly out.

Meanwhile, hospital officials where Lily had been treated in Tulsa, for

reasons yet to be fully clarified, decided to report the Rotts for medical

neglect which then prompted child welfare officials to file a petition to

have Lily taken into immediate custody. A sheriff and four squad cars

showed up at Lily's grandparents' house to pick up Lily. Not finding Lily

(as she was already en route to Switzerland by this time) child welfare

authorities filed a second set of papers in juvenile court now claiming

interest in the welfare of the Rotts' other four under-aged children.

Interest in these other children, according to the papers filed at the

courthouse, was based on 's gun collection and a supply of ammunition

found in their closed up house. (Gun ownership is a common practice in

Oklahoma and is perfectly legal). In addition, according to this same

court paperwork, the Rotts have been officially accused of being

" survivalists " , whatever that is supposed to mean.

was an executive with a national communications company until he was

forced to resign in order to go to Switzerland. is active in the

community and is known and respected for her citizen lobbyist work at the

legislature regarding various health freedom and parental rights issues.

The central legal argument now going on is HOW to treat Lily and who gets

to decide. In Switzerland, cancer experts disagree with American protocols

in two significant ways. First, they do not believe that a patient should

automatically get several years of chemotherapy once the patient is free of

cancer. Lily was free of cancer when she arrived in Switzerland. Second,

once a patient has not shown a return of the cancer for several months,

Swiss cancer doctors consider the patient cured. Conversely, American

doctors view ongoing chemotherapy as a " preventative " measure to prevent

the cancer from returning and they never use the word " cured " . If Lily is

declared cured by Swiss doctors, her Tulsa doctors still want to continue

chemotherapy once she gets back.

Also important to keep in mind, under Swiss law, PARENTS HAVE TOTAL

AUTHORITY to make all medical decisions about their children's welfare.

There are no compulsory childhood immunization laws and no parent would

ever be condemned for rejecting toxic chemical treatments for cancer or

anything else.

Instead, it is the belief of Swiss doctors that a parent must be completely

comfortable with the treatment ultimately chosen, as the child will do much

better with whatever protocol is used if he or she senses " Mom " thinks this

is OK.

In addition, Switzerland has always been a haven for both allopathic and

natural healing arts of all kinds. The ability to select from all medical

modalities is officially part of the Swiss medical system and it is common

practice to select from all modalities during the course of treatment.

After discussions with Swiss doctors regarding Lily's health situation upon

arrival in Switzerland, the Rotts decided to take Lily to a cancer clinic

that specialized in non-toxic treatments where she could be treated with

Iscador, a non-toxic drug made from mistletoe. Iscador has been used in

Switzerland since 1917 for cancer and it was recommended to Lily to support

her immune system. Iscador is also used to help repair the damage caused

by radiation and chemotherapy among other things. It also happens to be

the leading prescribed cancer medication in Germany and a key component in

conventional cancer therapy in many other countries in Europe. Iscador is

not used in America.

WE NEED YOUR HELP.

The Rotts have spent $14,000 to date on natural healing arts treatment for

Lily to correct the damage done to her by the chemotherapy. Hospital bills

from Tulsa are now rolling in and many are in the thousands of dollars not

covered by their health insurance. Medical bills are now also piling up in

Switzerland which their health insurance company refuses to pay. The Rotts

have also started to pile up several thousand dollars worth of legal bills

to deal with the ongoing legal mess in Oklahoma as the child welfare

authorities have told the Rotts by phone in recent days they intend to use

the courts to gain legal custody of Lily AND all four of their other

under-age children in absentia.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

1. Please send this e-mail to everyone you know.

2. Please send money to the fund that has been set up:

Please mail your check or money order to:

Tuttle Church of Christ

Attn: Rott Family Fund

PO Box 426

Tuttle, Oklahoma 73089

*Please make a special note on the memo portion of the payment that the

amount is to be used for the Rott Family fund.*

If you would like to confirm the facts in this case please call (405)

381-4409 or email maddogs@... .

3. Please contact Governor Keating and ask him to use his authority as

the highest ranking public official in Oklahoma to launch an investigation

into the actions of the Tulsa hospital in which Lily Rott was treated as

well as the actions of the Department of Human Services (child welfare)

against her parents.

Gov. Keating

Office of the Governor

Room 212

State Capitol

Oklahoma City, OK 73105

governor@...

4. Please ask Mr. Hendrick, Director of DHS (child welfare) to look into

the actions of his employees in this matter particularly so that he can

find out how the legal ownership of a gun collection and ammunition can be

construed by DHS workers as being a " survivalist " as well as justification

for taking children into state custody in what is nothing more than a

medical dispute over how to treat one of the children. Please ask him to

have someone define what a " survivalist " is.

Hendrick, Director

Oklahoma Department of Human Services

2400 N. Lincoln Blvd.,

P.O. Box 25352,

Oklahoma City, OK 73125

.Hendrick@...

5. If you are an Oklahoma resident, please contact your Oklahoma House

Member and your Oklahoma Senator to ask that they urge a full investigation

into this matter. Please tell them that if the Rotts are being treated

this way, there must be other parents who are being railroaded into

allowing toxic medical treatments for their children that they don't want

and they are being denied the right to select less toxic modalities.

Please be sure to mention that in Switzerland PARENTS HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT

TO DECIDE which medical treatments they want for their children NOT THE

DOCTORS and all manner of natural therapies are officially part of the

Swiss medical system!

http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/