{"id":6874,"date":"2010-01-24T22:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T22:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2010\/01\/radiation-overdoses.html"},"modified":"2010-01-24T22:31:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T22:31:28","slug":"radiation-overdoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2010\/01\/radiation-overdoses.html","title":{"rendered":"Radiation overdoses"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the blessings of having ovarian cancer is that I haven’t had to have radiation. After reading this article in the NY Times<\/a>, I doubt I would ever agree to do it.<\/p>\n

As Scott Jerome-Parks lay dying, he clung to this wish: that his fatal radiation overdose — which left him deaf, struggling to see, unable to swallow, burned, with his teeth falling out, with ulcers in his mouth and throat, nauseated, in severe pain and finally unable to breathe — be studied and talked about publicly so that others might not have to live his nightmare.
\nSensing death was near, Mr. Jerome-Parks summoned his family for a final Christmas. His friends sent two buckets of sand from the beach where they had played as children so he could touch it, feel it and remember better days.
\nMr. Jerome-Parks died several weeks later in 2007. He was 43.
\nA New York City hospital treating him for tongue cancer had failed to detect a computer error that directed a linear accelerator to blast his brain stem and neck with errant beams of radiation. Not once, but on three consecutive days. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Articles like this remind me that I have it much easier than other cancer patients so I should stop feeling annoyed that I have to go through chemo again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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