I like Spunky ... I really do! And one reason is that she keeps us all up to date on the latest idiotic happenings around this crazy nation of ours. Here's the latest - Pray This Never Happens to You. And she's right ... you better pray that it doesn't.

It's about Abraham Cherrix, a 16-year-old young man with Hodgkin's Disease who is fighting for his life ... literally. He wants to pursue "alternative treatment" for his cancer and this is against medical advice. Apparently someone "turned him in" (wonder who that was, hmmmm?) and now the big, bad government of ours has decided that they know better than his parents (and Abraham ... he is 16 mind you)what Abraham needs. The judge in this case ruled that Abraham must undergo the chemo.

I won't rehash the comments made at Spunky's site, but I will post what I commented:

I'm not understanding here what the problem is with alternative therapies??? Years ago Chiropractic treatments were considered weird and alternative ... now they are becoming more & more mainstream.

I, for one, would be one of the first ones to consider alternative therapies if I or my family were diagnosed with a serious disease ... I already do it now when we (rarely) do get sick.

Will I be considered neglectful the next time one of my daughters has an ear infection and I wait it out rather than giving her antibiotics? By the way ... I've never given antibiotics for ear infections and they have always cleared up on their own ... and in our family we have only had to deal with 2 of them. I know ear infections are not the point ... the point is that I choose NOT to go along with the commonly held (although inaccurate according to my research and my doctor - praise God for her!!) view that we must treat treat treat every ailment that comes our way with mainstream medicine.

Again, whether or not alternative therapies are right/wrong work/don't work is really not the point here ... what is the point is that we, as parents seeking the BEST for our families and children MUST MUST MUST have the right and freedom to choose.

Not only is this family (and others) victims of the government with britches that are too big, but I will go so far as to say that they are also victims of the medical establishment. The medical society/establishment/community (call it what you will) is also quite arrogant and damaging in a lot of cases.

Don't misunderstand me ... God has blessed us in many ways through medicine. But doctors are not gods, they are not all-knowing, they are not all-powerful. We give them too much power ... too much authority ... too much weight to their OPINIONS.

So here is what I think the problem is ... PRIDE - ARROGANCE ... coupled with the irrogance of the vast majority of the people in this nation ... those things have led us to where we are.

~Heather

p.s. here is Abraham's site ... http://www.abrahamsjourney.com/