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Old January 4th 07, 06:07 AM posted to alt.support.child-protective-services,alt.dads-rights.unmoderated,alt.parenting.spanking,alt.support.foster-parents
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http://content.hamptonroads.com/stor...5170&ran=84774

Teen with cancer says he's 'getting back into the groove'
By ELIZABETH SIMPSON, The Virginian-Pilot © November 29, 2006

Abraham Cherrix says he is feeling healthy and hopes a medical scan
scheduled in a few weeks will show that his cancer continues to be in
remission.

The 16-year-old Eastern Shore boy fought the judicial system earlier
this year to choose non traditional treatment for Hodgkin's disease.
He's enrolled in Chincoteague High School - the first public school
experience for the home-schooled boy. He plans to track a bill being
introduced before the General Assembly in January, called "Abraham's
law," that he hopes will give other teens more freedom to choose their
own medical treatment.

"I've been getting back into the groove of life and just getting used
to being normal again," he said Tuesday.

Abraham was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a highly treatable
lymphatic cancer, in late summer 2005, and went through one round of
chemotherapy last fall.

Follow-up tests in February showed that the cancer was still active,
and he needed more chemotherapy and also radiation therapy.

Because the side effects had been so severe, Abraham decided to try an
unproven, alternative treatment at a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico.

Social workers in Accomack County took his parents, Rose and Jay
Cherrix, to court in May, alleging medical neglect. A juvenile judge's
order that he return to chemotherapy made headlines across the globe -
and the Cherrixes appealed.

In August, an Accomack Circuit Court judge ruled that Abraham could
instead go to a Greenwood, Miss., radiation oncologist who uses an
approach combining conventional treatment and immunotherapy, which
emphasizes foods and supplements that boost the immune system.

After six weeks of treatment in September and early October, the tumors
in his neck and near his windpipe had shrunk, and he showed no active
cancer, according to Dr. Arnold Smith, the physician in charge of the
treatment.

Abraham will have a computerized imaging scan in December at Shore
Memorial Hospital to monitor the tumors. Smith also is preparing a
report for Accomack Circuit Court on Abraham's condition.

The Cherrixes had agreed to report to the court every three months on
how Abraham is doing until he turns 18.

Del. John Welch III, a Virginia Beach Republican, has said he will
sponsor "Abraham's law" for the General Assembly session that begins in
January.

The bill would change the child abuse and neglect statute to state that
parents of mature children with a life-threatening condition who have
made a well-informed decision not to seek a particular treatment would
not be considered abusive or neglectful.

"I hope it passes," Abraham said. "I think it will prevent other
children from having to go through what I went through, so I feel a
sense of accomplishment for all that's happened."

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Greegor wrote:
http://content.hamptonroads.com/stor...5170&ran=84774

Teen with cancer says he's 'getting back into the groove'
By ELIZABETH SIMPSON, The Virginian-Pilot © November 29, 2006

Abraham Cherrix says he is feeling healthy and hopes a medical scan
scheduled in a few weeks will show that his cancer continues to be in
remission.

The 16-year-old Eastern Shore boy fought the judicial system earlier
this year to choose non traditional treatment for Hodgkin's disease.
He's enrolled in Chincoteague High School - the first public school
experience for the home-schooled boy. He plans to track a bill being
introduced before the General Assembly in January, called "Abraham's
law," that he hopes will give other teens more freedom to choose their
own medical treatment.

"I've been getting back into the groove of life and just getting used
to being normal again," he said Tuesday.

Abraham was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a highly treatable
lymphatic cancer, in late summer 2005, and went through one round of
chemotherapy last fall.

Follow-up tests in February showed that the cancer was still active,
and he needed more chemotherapy and also radiation therapy.

Because the side effects had been so severe, Abraham decided to try an
unproven, alternative treatment at a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico.

Social workers in Accomack County took his parents, Rose and Jay
Cherrix, to court in May, alleging medical neglect. A juvenile judge's
order that he return to chemotherapy made headlines across the globe -
and the Cherrixes appealed.

In August, an Accomack Circuit Court judge ruled that Abraham could
instead go to a Greenwood, Miss., radiation oncologist who uses an
approach combining conventional treatment and immunotherapy, which
emphasizes foods and supplements that boost the immune system.

After six weeks of treatment in September and early October, the tumors
in his neck and near his windpipe had shrunk, and he showed no active
cancer, according to Dr. Arnold Smith, the physician in charge of the
treatment.

Abraham will have a computerized imaging scan in December at Shore
Memorial Hospital to monitor the tumors. Smith also is preparing a
report for Accomack Circuit Court on Abraham's condition.

The Cherrixes had agreed to report to the court every three months on
how Abraham is doing until he turns 18.

Del. John Welch III, a Virginia Beach Republican, has said he will
sponsor "Abraham's law" for the General Assembly session that begins in
January.

The bill would change the child abuse and neglect statute to state that
parents of mature children with a life-threatening condition who have
made a well-informed decision not to seek a particular treatment would
not be considered abusive or neglectful.

"I hope it passes," Abraham said. "I think it will prevent other
children from having to go through what I went through, so I feel a
sense of accomplishment for all that's happened."


http://www.statesman.com/news/conten...ldcancer..html

statesman.com

Cancer recurs in teen at center of custody dispute
Family had fought previous treatment.

By Lynn Brezosky
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thursday, January 04, 2007

HARLINGEN - A teen at the center of a bitter custody battle between
her parents and the state over her medical treatment is fighting cancer
that has aggressively returned, her father said Wednesday.

Katie Wernecke, 14, felt pain near her lower ribs that turned out to be
a large mass, Ed Wernecke said Wednesday. According to the family's
"pray for Katie" Web site, a medical scan found "multiple hot spots" of
cancer.

The state placed Katie in a Houston foster home when her parents
refused radiation treatments for her Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the
lymph nodes.

In subsequent custody hearings, the Werneckes said chemotherapy already
had killed the cancer and they feared the radiation would do more harm
than good.

But a family court judge kept Katie in foster care because social
workers and an oncologist said her odds of survival were at about 20
percent without further radiation treatment.

Attempts to treat Katie during the months she was in foster care at
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston stalled after she broke fasts
and ripped out catheters. In November 2005, another judge returned her
to her family.

Since then, the Werneckes have been to several states trying various
treatments, including intravenous vitamin C in Kansas and, ultimately,
radiation.

In October, the family's Web site reported that the cancer was in
remission, and Ed Wernecke said the family wanted to resume life
outside the spotlight.

"The last time it was gone," he said Wednesday. "Now it's already
back."

The most recent Web site posting rails against some of Katie's medical
treatment, saying the family thinks that the cancer in her lower chest
"was seeded when they removed the chest tube" to drain a lung and that
a doctor at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center needlessly removed Katie's
thymus gland.

"When I asked the doctor why, she said, 'Because she didn't need it,' "
Ed Wernecke said. "That's old style learning. . . . (The thymus gland)
fights the infection. Cancer's nothing but a foreign protein and
foreign cells and the body sees it as foreign. That's the only way you
can defeat cancer. Ultimately your body has to come back and take
over."

M.D. Anderson spokeswoman Julie Penne said the hospital could not
comment.

"Out of protecting her privacy we would not speak to that," she said.

Ed Wernecke said Katie, a top student, had missed about a month of
school to travel for treatments but was getting assignments and keeping
up.

He said she would return to school today.

He said that both chemotherapy and radiation have failed and that his
daughter was undergoing immunology treatments.

In a similar case, a Virginia judge in July ruled that 16-year-old
Starchild Abraham Cherrix could reject chemotherapy for his Hodgkin's
disease in favor of alternative treatments. A doctor in September said
Cherrix appeared to be improving.




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