Oshin Kiszko from Perth celebrated his sixth birthday early just before Easter.
It was a superhero party for a little boy who loves the action heroes the best.
His parents were there, his two big sisters and loving friends joined by Batman, IronMan, Superman and even Wolverine.
It was a day of memories and love but a day tinged with fear and sadness.
His parents, Angela Kiszko and Adrian Strachan had to move his birthday forward a few weeks because at 7.30am the next day, on Easter Sunday – against their wishes, and against every legal move they had made – they were forced to take Oshin to hospital for intensive chemotherapy in a court ordered bid to buy the dying little boy more time.
Treatment his family don’t want him to have.
Oshin's sixth birthday. Image via Facebook.
Oshin was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a fast growing, high grade and invasive tumour last December but his parents have refused chemotherapy and radiotherapy because they do not want their son to become a “lab rat”.
However after family court intervention a judge overruled them and Oshin is now undergoing chemotherapy in what his family say is treatment similar to living in “Nazi Germany.”
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Having helped as a carer several people LIVE their lives with cancer who chose alternative treatments and refused chemical/radiation therapies, I have since changed my mind on alternative therapies. All three people have lived better lives. One is still fighting the cancer after being told 15 months ago that she had three months left to live and absolutely must begin chemical therapy. She is at home, with her family and pets, making slow but positive recovery. Another lady I cared for died after 12 months, but not fighting for her life, not blanched white and underweight like a POW, serene and tranquil and having enjoyed her final 12 months, eating with her family, living with her family. The third person I visited is a man who, 5 years ago, refused hospitalisation and trusted the highly skilled people. He is back running his farm after having tumours in his brain and lungs.
Science isn't evil, but it is't the law. If major drug companies invested the money into testing alternative treatments, they would be new evidence! But why would a drug company want you to know that?
Wasn't the Nazi movement once "mainstream"?
Christopher
Thank goodness Science is winning out over the anti-vaxxers and anti-mainstream-medicine nut jobs.