Nothing like starting a Sunday thinking about a Joe Jackson song. Of course, the obvious would be his great "Sunday Papers". But, that has nothing to do with this blog topic.

I had the TV on as I was doing some bills. I happened to have the channel showing that Farrah Fawcett documentary she made, focusing on her cancer.

It started with her saying something about how she never thought she'd say the words "cancer", "death" and "anal" in the same sentence. I was wondering what sentences she'd use the word "anal".

It was a rather hearbreaking thing to watch. Especially Ryan O'Neil, who I had thought of as a loser the past few years (he punched his son, has been involved in drug cases, etc). But he really seems to have stepped it up in his support of his on again/off again love. It's wonderful when people rally in the face of a tragedy, and for him to be by her side during this time.

The only thing that bothered me was Farrah saying that she wished insurance companies would cover alternative forms of recovery.

One of the things they said on the show was how she flew to Germany for some holistic treatments. Well...I think our country and the FDA does a good job of approving things that work and things that don't, need a lot of testing before they're considered. Now, I know this means some people are going to post on here about all these conspiracy theories, and how the drug companies don't want to find cures because they make money and blah blah blah. I just don't buy it. I think there are enough doctors and scientists out there that don't just care about the money, and this stuff would come out if it worked.

I remember a guy I played racquetball with years ago. Each day he'd come to the courts with a different conspiracy theory he had heard on some lame AM station the night before. One time it was about how cars could run on water, but the big oil companies have negotiated with the car companies to keep those cars from coming out. Now...see how stupid stuff like that sounds when you really think about it?

But back to cancer.

Farrah saying this made me think of that boy in Minnesota. I don't have the details in front of me, and I'm not going to start a new precedent of doing research before I blog. But the story is something like this: a 13-year-old has cancer and didn't want to go thru the chemo. The doctors agreed that the kind of tumor this kid has is 90% treatable with chemo.

The family claimed their religion was against this and they wanted to look into holistic healing treatments. And the authorities stepped in. They started talking about charges of child endangerment, etc.

So, the mother did what any stupid mother would do. She fled.

At some point a few days later, the father said he wanted them to return. As of now, they haven't. And when you have a cancerous tumor, wasting time isn't something you want to do.

Now, for any idiots out there that say they should have the right to decide what kind of treatment is best for their son -- you're wrong. It's as simple as that.

Farrah was an adult making that decision. They told her that the surgeory might work, but she'd have a colostomy bag. She opted out of that, which is somewhat understandable.

But a child can't make those decisions. His first set of chemo made him sick and he didn't like the way he felt (if I remember the initial story from a month ago). I wonder why their religion didn't forbid them from the first set of chemo treatments.

Either way...if the tumor has spread, or gotten to big to operate on, I hope the authorities charge this mother. Throw everything at her -- kidnapping, endangering a child, everything.

Yeah yeah...I understand that she's going thru a lot if she loses her son. But that's no excuse for putting your kids health in jeopardy. And if parents are so stupid that they don't know all the things that are best to do for their children, maybe they should refrain from having any.