Starchild
While agonizing over what to write this journal about my mother kept flashing newspaper headlines in front of me, hoping that one might spark my interest, and one did, but I was not interested about what the headline actually said but what it reminded me of. In yesterday's edition of The Idaho Statesman, front page was a story about how many Idahoans do not have health care and the fact that that number is steadily rising. This made me remember an article I had read while sitting in the dentist's office last week, it talked about 16 year old Starchild Abraham Cherrix, a teenager living in Chincoteague, Virginia who was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease last August. After going through chemotherapy, he found out in February that it was not gone. He, along with the full support of his family, decided to decline conventional chemotherapy and instead go with an alternative sugar-free, organic diet and herbal supplements from a clinic in Mexico. They chose this for more reason that being......
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