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To: bentway who wrote (204137)	9/23/2006 2:57:12 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I have a tenant dying of brain cancer. The government owes him a disability pension, but it will take months to get. He started his quest 2 years ago, he had a sore hip. The doctors looked around, and he waited months for an MRI because we are short of them and there is a waiting list, eventually last year they got a diagnosis, and gave him pain killers. last november they looked again and at Christmas they discovered some kind of bone cancer, and it was affecting his liver. So they started treatment. In march they decided that the treatment wasn't the right one, and started another course. They decided he deserved a Disability pension cause all his time would be taken up with Cancer treatment. In June they discovered Brain Cancer and in August started to treat it. They burned his face so badly that he was in the hospital for radiation burns, Thursday they sent him home, with a Morphine Pump. He is dying. He has not yet got his disability check. you will notice that the events are spread out, those are wait times. He was misdiagnosed. My Friend Christine went the same way, she was being treated for bladder warts, for three years, until her GP thought of Uterine Cancer. They operated, and sent her for radiation very quickly she got in to see the specialist it only took 10 weeks. then they arranged radiation treatments it took 8 or 9 more weeks. Then she went back for her second course and they gave her 90 days to live. In the time it took to get the first radiation treatment the cancer had started to spread. If the process had taken 2 or 3 weeks she would have lived. But it was simply wait times. Canadians get their treatment, yes. My Dad needs a new knee, but at 87 he is too old. He is also too old to go to India, he could afford to pay for it, but Canadians are not allowed to do so in Canada. So my Father lives with pain every time he walks. Painkillers are cheaper than surgery. People who are sick cannot wait. they die.