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Ont. man dies after MS vein opening


An Ontario man with multiple sclerosis died of complications after a controversial treatment in Costa Rica to open up his neck veins, CBC News has learned.

Mahir Mostic, 35, of St. Catharines died on Oct. 19, one day after doctors in the Central American country tried to dissolve a blood-clot complication.


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meowiekitty wrote:Posted 2010/11/19
at 1:27 PM ET



If I had fast developing MS, I'd try experimental procedures to increase my quality of life (it wasn't meant to cure him). I'd try experimental procedures for anything, and I'd probably try heroin too. What difference does it make if I'm going to die soon anyway?

This disease is terrible, especially the fast moving kind. I don't think people live much longer than 5 years after they are diagnosed.

Science can't move forward if we don't try new procedures. At one time, we thought the cure for STDs was mercury. We also used to bleed people to cure them!

This man was very brave to try something new and controversial, and he did so knowing that there is a high degree of risk.

Meowkittie you're In luck !

We at Doctor Duck's House of Quackery have created a new cure for MS ! It involves stuffing cotton balls into the ears of the patients while praying to the secret VooDoo spirit of MS Cures who's name we are sworn never to reviel !

So have your 10 000$ ready and come on down ! Our Voodoo doctors only have limited beds available so hurry to get yours !

Remember ! You're dying of a horrible incurable disease so its time to try anything ! Does it really matter I got my degree off the back of a cracker jack box ?

You have nothing to lose but the contents of your wallets !


Remember Doctor Ducks motto ! "I'm not a duck , just a Quack !"

PS: Medical degree's in Quackery for sale cheap , exams optional , inquire within.

Return of the Wireless Toaster

My friend the paranoid schizophrenic called the other day, said he had some time off work next week if I wanted to have a coffee with him.

Hmm...time off work.

Last time I checked he didn't have a job , and swore up and down he'd never work again.

You know ... an unstable paranoid schizophrenic holding down a job ... umm... unstable people generally don't do that. They'd rather be out on the street freezing to death.

hmmm.....

Well ok ... I suppose I can risk a cup of coffee on the off chance he's cured, or maybe never was paranoid , or whatever weirdness might have happened.

So I meet up with him.

He actually went back to work some number of months ago. He didn't want to , he swore up and down he never would, but they made him , so he went. And he fired that lawyer who was leeching all his money and giving him nothing for it.

Hmm....paranoid schizophrenics wouldn't return to work , wouldn't deal with these issues, would just ignore them actually. That would be the "Schizophrenic" part of disease, the innability to deal with reality. Apparently being paranoid is ok , maybe even normal , it's only when it interfere's with your ability to deal with reality that the psychologists get all interested in it.

Hmm...he's still got his car. In fact, he tells me , the lease ran out on it and he bought it. Hmm... I would have bet long odds he would have lost it long ago.

Ok. Time for the big test. "Do you still think I work for a government agency thats out to kill you ? "

"I never said that ! You're paraphrasing ! Thats not what I meant ..." yadda yadda yadda...

Well..ok. Good enough for me. You don't throw a 20+ year friendship away if you really don't have to , they're kind of hard to replace , and it looks like I don't have to. So hey !

Welcome back , Wireless Toaster.